While Boats4People’s Oloferne is at sea, many other people are contributing to the campaign from land in Africa, Europe and even as far as the USA. Amongst them, researchers of the Forensic Oceanography research project at Goldsmiths, University of London, who, in the frame of the B4P campaign, have launched a new online mapping platform to monitor in almost real time the death of migrants and violations of their rights at the maritime borders of the EU.
Acting as a “civilian watchtower” (...)
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Presse release 2: after a day of sailing
Almost one year to the day after the launch of the project, under the aplaudissements participants of the Cecina antiracist meeting and cries of "Boats 4 People!" Several hundreds of balloons were released into the port of departure of the boat Rosignano "Oloferne "organization Nave di Carta for the first mission Boats 4 People. Composed of three international activists , a representative of families of missing migrants in Tunisia, two journalists and two documentary filmmakers, the team’s (...)
France denies two Southern activists access to international meeting again
Once again, human right activists were unable to meet due to the closure of EU borders. One delegate from the Malian Organisation of Expelled people (Association Malienne des Expulsés – AME) and a delegate from the Central African Organisation of Removed people in Mali (Association des Refoulés d’Afrique Centrale au Mali – ARACEM) were refused visas by the French authorities and were unable attend the international anti-racist meeting organised by ARCI, Boats 4 People, and the Migreurop network (...)
Everyone on deck!
Press release number 1 of the crossing.
PROGRAM-BOATS 4 PEOPLE
01/07/12 - 19/07/12
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