Pediatrician Caro on her engagement with Sea-Watch Carolin Möhrke works as a pediatrician in a small town in the east of Germany, most of the time anyway. She purposely took a part time job at the local hospital. When she is not at work here, the 38 year old does volunteer work. Caro has been…
DetailsWith the larger ship, demands on our voluntary crews are also growing. Our new partner, the ISC Training & Assembly GmbH, offers them the opportunity to prepare themselves for possible risks and scenarios during the next missions on the Sea-Watch 3 in a professional security training tailored to our work. During our first, intensive training…
DetailsSea-Watch will soon commence missions with the Sea-Watch 3. The Sea-Watch 3 is the first boat of the Sea-Watch fleet that is capable of bringing rescued people to a safe harbor itself. In order to avoid the risk of an arbitrary confiscation of our boat, as in the case of the IUVENTA of Jugend Rettet,…
DetailsDuring our Monitoring Mission in the Aegean Sea, the Sea-Watch crew has put special attention on the so-called HotSpots. This article gathers reports about the dramatic situation in the biggest of these camps: Moria, Lesbos. We urge the Greek government to close down the prison-like camps and transfer people to the mainland before winter is…
DetailsOpen the islands – No more dead from cold Lesvos, Kos, Chios, Crete, Rhodes, Kalymnos, Nisyros, Athens, Thessaloniki, Berlin, 12.10.2017 Together with over 40 solidarity groups and organizations active on the Greek islands and mainland, we are calling for urgent action from the Greek local and national authorities to prevent more refugees from dying in…
Detailsby Marlene Resch On World Refugee Day Sea-Watch urged the EU together with seven other NGOs to change their mirgation policy. This now shows effect. The establishment of an objective Monitoringcenter for the Mediterranean is planned as a pilotproject. Stakeholders from EU and Frontex agreed on that on a conference last week in London. We…
DetailsThe EU-Turkey-Deal crumbles: More and more refugees reach Greece via the Mediterranean again. The inhabitants of a small island at Europe’s borders show the world what it takes to turn a “crisis” in something positive. By Bob Jones Leros – a sleepy little island. Abandoned buildings around the harbor give the impression of a ghost…
DetailsConference Report of the Mediterranean Migration Movements Conference in Tunis, 23.09.17 by Daniel Achterberg, Head of Mission #Moonbird People from European countries gathered with speakers from Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Libya at a conference organized by Watch the Med/ Alarmphone in Tunis last weekend. Sea-Watch activists expressed their view on realities and challenges of…
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