Activity Report 2017

Although the country’s presidency of the EU does not begin until July 1st, Austria has already announced, through its Prime Minister, that it will seek to focus on borders. This is hardly surprising from the leader of a party on the far right, but this impulse is shared by a number of European heads of government and may even be the lowest common denominator between member states. According to the President of the European Council, in a statement made last January, “Protecting our territory, (…)

A publication by Boats4People

Boats 4 People published on the 12th of May 2017, during the Sabir Festival, an information guide for the families of migrants –and their supporters- who died or went missing while crossing Central Mediterranean sea on their way to Italy.
This guide is now available in Italian, English, French, Arabic and Tigrinya (see also attachments below).
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 2014, more than 12 000 people lost their lives in the Mediterranean (…)

Forensic Oceanography/Watch the Med Report, April 2016

One year after two successive shipwrecks that occurred on the 12 and 18 April of 2015 and led to the death of more than 1,200 migrants, 500 persons are reported missing after their boat capsized last week in the Mediterranean Sea.
Yet again, this shipwreck proves, if there were still need to do so, that surveillance and security obsession override rescue. Even though the European Union (EU) and its Member States pretend to act in order to avoid losses of human lives, the numerous – (…)