29th November 2019 | News
Over the course of the last week at least 41 people have died in two separate shipwrecks, one off Lampedusa and one between Morocco and Spain. After disembarking a total of 353 people in Italian ports in the beginning of the week, NGO ships rescued another 213 people...
22nd November 2019 | News
In four operations, NGO ships rescued nearly 300 people fleeing Libya this week. Amid deepened cooperation between EU member states and the so-called Libyan coastguard (LCG), an NGO spokesperson denounces the situation in the Central Mediterranean as “worse as it has...
22nd November 2019 | News
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered today its judgment in Haqbin, where it ruled that Member States cannot order the withdrawal, even temporary, of material reception conditions in case an asylum seeker seriously violates the house rules of a...
22nd November 2019 | News
New research published by the European University Institute suggests that Search and Rescue (SAR) activities in the Mediterranean, especially those carried out by NGOs, are not incentivizing departures of boats from Libyan shores. Combining data from UNHCR, IOM and...
22nd November 2019 | News
Joint Letter November 2019 Stories and images of people stranded on boats in the Mediterranean have long been covering news outlets. People are stuck on boats for weeks without adequate support such as water, food, and medical care and ultimately risk being denied...
