![MEDITERRANEAN: UN Offers Condolences for Victims of Migrant Shipwrecks in Ionian Sea ― Cyprus Rejects “Buffer Zone Migrants” Amid Rising Tensions Between Republic and UN ― Hellenic Coast Guard Accused of Throwing Migrants Overboard to Their Deaths ― Italian Cabinet Upholds NGO Request to Stop Sending Patrol Boats to Tunisia ― Frontex Internal Review System Actively Undermined](https://ecre.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mediterranean-.png)
![MEDITERRANEAN: UN Offers Condolences for Victims of Migrant Shipwrecks in Ionian Sea ― Cyprus Rejects “Buffer Zone Migrants” Amid Rising Tensions Between Republic and UN ― Hellenic Coast Guard Accused of Throwing Migrants Overboard to Their Deaths ― Italian Cabinet Upholds NGO Request to Stop Sending Patrol Boats to Tunisia ― Frontex Internal Review System Actively Undermined](https://ecre.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mediterranean-.png)
![EU EXTERNAL PARTNERS: EU Denies Complicity in Dumping Black Migrants in North African Desert ― Human Rights Organisations Call for Human Rights Benchmarks for Egypt Amid Reports of Forced Returns of Sudanese Refugees ― Video Reveals More Abuse of Migrants by Libyan Coast Guard ― Leaked UN Briefing Reveals Details of Tunisian Role in Torture and Killing of Migrants in Libya ― Moroccan and Spanish Authorities Reportedly ‘Involved’ in Melilla Tragedy](https://ecre.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EU-EXTERNAL-PARTNERS.png)
EU EXTERNAL PARTNERS: EU Denies Complicity in Dumping Black Migrants in North African Desert ― Human Rights Organisations Call for Human Rights Benchmarks for Egypt Amid Reports of Forced Returns of Sudanese Refugees ― Video Reveals More Abuse of Migrants by Libyan Coast Guard ― Leaked UN Briefing Reveals Details of Tunisian Role in Torture and Killing of Migrants in Libya ― Moroccan and Spanish Authorities Reportedly ‘Involved’ in Melilla Tragedy
The European Commissioner for Home Affairs has denied being aware of human rights abuses and so-called “desert dumps” carried out in the EU’s migration partner countries in North Africa. Human rights organisations have written to the European Commission President to...![Op-ed: The EU is stretching the limits of the Temporary Protection Directive beyond 2025, but is it enough?](https://ecre.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Op-ed-on-TP-extension-until-2026_Image.png)
Op-ed: The EU is stretching the limits of the Temporary Protection Directive beyond 2025, but is it enough?
By Viktoryia Vaitovich Following the unprecedented EU response to the displacement from Ukraine with the triggering of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) for the first time in March 2022, the generally very positive approach to a refugee crisis has now taken a...![MEDITERRANEAN: UN Offers Condolences for Victims of Migrant Shipwrecks in Ionian Sea ― Cyprus Rejects “Buffer Zone Migrants” Amid Rising Tensions Between Republic and UN ― Hellenic Coast Guard Accused of Throwing Migrants Overboard to Their Deaths ― Italian Cabinet Upholds NGO Request to Stop Sending Patrol Boats to Tunisia ― Frontex Internal Review System Actively Undermined](https://ecre.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mediterranean-.png)
MEDITERRANEAN: New Calls for Safe and Legal Pathways after NGO Retrieves 12 Bodies from Sea ― Search and Rescue NGO Wins Court Case Against Italian Authorities ― Greek Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Human Rights Defender ― Survivors of Pylos Shipwreck Still Waiting for Accountability on First Anniversary of Tragedy
The search and rescue (SAR) NGO Médecins Sans Frontières Sea (MSF Sea) has renewed its calls for safe and legal pathways after it recovered the bodies of 12 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. The Sea-Eye SAR NGO has won a court case against...![European Parliament Elections 2024](https://ecre.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/European-Parliament-Elections-2024_Image-1080x675.png)