The UNAVFOR MED IRINI mandate without search and rescue component is extended until 31 March 2023. At the first meeting of the European Search and Rescue Contact Group, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson reiterated the message that no one must be...
Migrants and asylum seekers are being forced to travel long journeys to attend Home Office appointments as cases of COVID-19 soar. Outbreaks have been confirmed at a third immigration removal centre amid accusations of Home Office’s “callousness” for blaming asylum...
Lethal shipwrecks between 23-29 October claimed more than 230 deaths. Within just two days more than 500 people were rescued and returned to Mauritania. Over 11,200 people arrived to the Canary Islands in 2020, almost half of them within the past month. The conditions...
The use of quarantine ships in Italy is expanded to foreign nationals holding resident permits in Italy whilst conditions aboard are critical. Five people went missing off Lampedusa in times when sea and rescue activities in the Mediterranean Sea are low due to the...
Four shipwrecks off Libya cost the lives of more than 100 people over the last weeks and Alarm phone has reported numerous additional incidents of boats in distress or unaccounted for. After rescuing more than 200 people in 48 hours the crew of Sea Watch 4, currently...