“Save a life, and you save the whole world.” Sea-Watch has saved the lives of around 27,000 people since June 2015. Every individual person was alone worth the effort undertaken by our many volunteers. This year in particular, it is becoming increasingly difficult to carry out our humanitarian mission. Libya, a land in the grip…
DetailsPhoto: Moritz Richter We will never forget the first operational day of the #IUVENTA: the sight of the ship with more than 400 people on board, whom we had saved in a joint, not uncomplicated, mission. The young crew were thrown straight in the deep end. Since then a lot has happened, Jugend Rettet e.V.…
DetailsThe faces of 38,000 human beings mark the sad reality of the EU’s migration policies. Since the year 2000, more than 38,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, the EU’s external border. Yet together we can find ways to remember all of these people who perished in search of a better life,…
DetailsBREAKING: Sea-Watch is bringing another ship into operation The so-called ‘Code of Conduct‘, which was presented in Rome yesterday, will not save human lives but will in fact have the opposite effect. Not so the Sea-Watch 3: Sea-Watch is sending another rescue ship in response to the inaction of the EU. Many thousands of people…
DetailsItaly has drafted a Code of Conduct which it wants to impose on NGOs carrying out Search and Rescue (SAR) in the Mediterranean. Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax, Senior Lecturer in law at Queen Mary University of London, explains why many of the clauses are “either redundant or simply illegal.” Sea-Watch: Perhaps we could start with…
DetailsIt is not a crime to flee war, violence or poverty. To lend weight to this statement, Sea-Watch organised an open exchange of ideas in Berlin on World Refugee Day, 20th June 2017. Various guests brought their perspectives on the criminalisation of refugees and migrants to the podium. Contributions from leading experts in fields of…
DetailsOur Facebook Moderator engages daily in the struggle for truth – and against hate ‘Watch out – all that hate does funny things to you.’ This phrase, which Leonie has heard a lot recently, keeps popping into her head. “What does it do to you? A lot of things I’m confronted with just make…
DetailsThe interior ministers of Italy, Germany and France, as well as the EU Commissioner for Refugees Dimitris Avramopoulous, demanded on Monday a code of conduct for migrant rescue NGOs. They ignore the fact that such a code already exists: the international law of the sea. Furthermore, a broader code of conduct has already been agreed…
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