The European coastguard and border guard agency Frontex is accused by various media of knowledge of or complicity in the pushback of at least six boats of migrants in the Aegean Sea between March and September 2020 as part of Operation Poseidon. For the first time, the agency has been summoned to explain itself to the European Commission and Parliament. It was about time!
Numerous and recurrent accusations For ten years now, multiple actors have been documenting the incompatibility of (…)
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Hundreds of NGOs and individuals call for revocation of Libya’s SAR Zone
OPEN LETTER
Open letter requesting the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to repeal the Libyan SAR zone
Dear Secretary General Kitack Lim,
After Libya and Malta signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 28 May 2020 to provide a bilateral legal basis for unlawful practices, it is urgent for the IMO, as the UN maritime authority, to remove the Libyan SAR zone from official records. Italy also renewed its MoU with Libya in February 2020, despite acknowledging that it was (…)EU: Time to review and remedy cooperation policies facilitating abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya
Joint Statement
One year after the resumption of the armed conflict in Tripoli, and at a time when the humanitarian situation in Libya continues to deteriorate due to further military escalation and the spreading of the Covid-19 virus, Amnesty International, the Italian Recreational and Cultural Association (ARCI), Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI), Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EuroMed Rights), (…)
Deaths in the Mediterranean are not inevitable!
Solidarity: the last shield against the EU’s deadly policies
After several days of uncertainty and confusion, the outcome at the beginning of April in the Central Mediterranean, although still provisional, is particularly disastrous: hundreds of migrants exhausted after being abandoned at sea for several days without any help, 12 people dead from dehydration or drowning and several hundred sent back to the Libyan hell they were trying to flee at all costs. But while Europe pretends that this tragedy is one of the inevitable ’collateral damages’ of the (…)
From the « war against the virus » to the war against exiles: security responses to Covid-19 exacerbate violence at borders
The Greek hotspots in which exiles are crammed without any protection of their rights or from the pandemic are an example of the precarization of their trajectories by the security policies of States. Migreurop denounces the violence inflicted onto exiles in the name of the “war against the virus”, their unequal treatment with regard to the pandemic, and demands the immediate closure of all spaces of migrant detention in order to ensure their right to be protected.
Today, Migreurop (…)