A critical chronology of European migration policies.

Inquiry into the Italian Centres for Identification and Expulsion

«Medici per i Diritti Umani-MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) is a non-profit humanitarian organisation dedicated to international solidarity, independent of any political, labour union, religious or ethnic affiliation.
MEDU aims to: Bring humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable populations, in crisis situations both in Italy and abroad; Develop democratic and participatory spaces within civil society for the purposes of
promoting the right to health and other basic human rights. (…)

Anafé, Migreurop and Boats 4 People demand the interior minister to begin procedures for an inquiry into the tragic drowning of a young Guinean, a stowaway on an Italian merchant navy ship.
After an exhausting twenty-five-day crossing on board of a cargo ship that set off from Dakar, two young Guinean migrants finally arrived, on this Friday 10 January, in the port of Marseilles, and were taken ashore by the authorities.
The border police [police aux frontières, PAF] refused to record (…)

5th of December 2013
While the EU launches Eurosur – the European Border Surveillance System – to further militarize its maritime borders, members of civil society launch WatchTheMed (watchthemed.net) – a “counter-Eurosur” to document and denounce migrants’ deaths and violations of their rights in the Mediterranean.
3rd of October 2013. A boat carrying more than 500 people sinks less than 1km from the coast of Lampedusa. At least 366 people die, only 155 people are rescued.
The (…)