“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”. Martin Luther King Migration is neither a problem to be solved nor an unnatural movement to be stopped. Migration is a fact and it has been so since…
DetailsTogether with the Spanish organization Open Arms and the Italian partner project Mediterranea, Sea-Watch 3 returns to the search and rescue zone off Libya. Previously, the ship had unlawfully been detained in Malta for almost four months, while the death rate in the Mediterranean rose to a record high. The fleet of three ships from…
DetailsThe Sea-Watch 3 was cleared to leave Malta after 3 month of unlawful detention to undergo repairs and refits in a Spanish shipyard and left Valetta port this morning, 7 am local time. Meanwhile the deathrate on the central mediterranean is at record high. The Dutch-flagged, 50-meter rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3 had been blocked from…
DetailsMore than 3 months, the reconnaissance aircraft Moonbird, operated by Sea-Watch in cooperation with the Swiss Humanitarian Pilots Initiative, was prevented from operation by the Maltese government without providing any legal ground. With the crackdown on civil sea rescue, meanwhile, the death rate at Europe’s sea border reached its record high of one out of…
DetailsThe Mare Jonio, a 37.5 m Italian flagged vessel run by the Italian civil society project “Mediterranea” in cooperation with Sea-Watch, has set sails to the Central Mediterranean Sea. Accompanied by the Astral, of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, the Mare Jonio is bound to resume civil sea rescue at the deadliest border of…
DetailsA dead body, found yesterday by the civil surveillance aircraft Colibri, likely indicates a new shipwreck in the central mediterranean sea. The lack of suitable rescue assets and the blockade of the civil rescue fleet, turn the central Mediterranean into a deadly black box: Several shipwrecks occurred, since Malta is blocking rescue vessels from doing…
DetailsYesterday, Sunday, the crew of the surveillance aircraft Colibri witnessed once again a dramatic case of failure to render assistance by the Italian authorities. A rubber boat with over 80 refugees was in distress at sea for over 9 hours and was finally towed back to war-torn Libya by the country’s so-called Coast Guard. At…
DetailsDear Mr Prime Minister, with the present letter, Sea-Watch holds the Maltese government responsible for deliberately and arbitrarily detaining the ship Sea-Watch 3 for over two months, without legal justification and rather on a merely political basis. This is a conscious attempt to hinder the rescue of people in distress on the Central Mediterranean. We…
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