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Sea-Watch parte in missione nonostante gli ostacoli al soccorso in mare

La 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…

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Sea Watch Mission Starts Despite Impediment of Sea Rescue

The 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…

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Maggie and the sea

Maggie, 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…

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The year in review: most important for Sea-Watch in 2018

January 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…

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