In recent days and weeks, events came thick and fast on Europe’s deadliest sea border in terms of civil rescue at sea, and a number of landmark decisions are imminent. For this reason we make a summary of recent developments in the Mediterranean. The most important developments: Sea-Watch saves more than 300 people, rescue shows…
DetailsLa nave di soccorso Sea-Watch 3 è partita in mattinata per una nuova missione nel Mediterraneo Centrale. Sea-Watch è sempre più preoccupata per i recenti sviluppi in mare, dove il nuovo ruolo attribuito alla Guardia Costiera Libica risulta in maggiori respingimenti e rende difficoltose le operazioni, mettendo a rischio innanzitutto le persone soccorse, ma anche…
DetailsThe Sea-Watch 3 will depart today for a new rescue mission in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Sea-Watch is increasingly concerned about recent developments at sea, where the new role attributed to the Libyan Coast Guard results in increasing push-backs and distressing circumstances during operations, for both the people rescued and the NGOs’ rescuers. It remains…
DetailsMaggie, 31, has been actively engaged against fortress Europe for years. She studies Arabic in Tunisia and is one of the founders of the Watch the Med Alarmphone. When during her shifts on the Alarmphone she has been in contact with people in distress, she longed for nothing more than a ship or a helicopter…
DetailsToday, our crew disembarked our guests in Messina into the hands of our colleagues of the Italian Red Cross. This time too, many of them had been fleeing from their homelands for months and had to spend much of that time in the civil war country of Libya. Some told us the stories of their…
DetailsJanuary EU Interior Ministers Meeting on asylum policy – result: Strengthening border security February EU summit in Malta. Decision: promotion and training of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard with a budget of 200 million euros March Eight civilian SAR-organizations release a joint statement in which they reproach the accusation of cooperation with smugglers by Italian…
DetailsOn International Migrants Day, Hamsa told us his story: „I am a young man from Kobane, Syria. I grew up in a middle class family. All my father wanted was for me to achieve my dream in becoming a judge to defend the oppressed. I am a Syrian Kurd and Kurds have always been oppressed.…
DetailsThe captain who steered the Sea-Watch 3 to her first rescue mission off the Libyan coast in early November was Pia Klemp, a Sea-Watch activist from Bonn, Germany. She has a lot to tell about European politics in the Mediterranean… and everyday life aboard a search and rescue vessel… Only one in 100 ships in…
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