Tragedy continues to unfold across the Mediterranean with another week of drownings, rescue operations and obstruction of disembarkation. According to the Turkish coast guard, 12 people died and 31 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants to Greece sank in the...
Rescue efforts cannot keep up with departures and loss of lives on the Mediterranean while crackdown on rescue ships and civil society organisations continues. This week, seven people have drowned while trying to reach the Greek island of Lesvos from Turkey in a boat...
France continues to use immigration detention routinely and broadly, according to the annual report published by six civil society organisations present in the country’s detention centres. According to statistics published by the organisations, 43,609 people were...
In its annual report on migrant detention in 2018 entitled “Discriminación De Origen”, the Servicio Jesuita A Migrantes in Spain (SJME) denounces the discriminatory treatment of people because of their nationality and calls for abolishing migrant detention centres....
The NGO Watch the Med Alarm Phone warns of police violence and unlawful arbitrary repression of migrants in Morocco and increasingly dangerous crossings to Spain. The organisation links the developments to Morocco’s role as Spain’s and the EUs “watchdog at the...
