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20 Mar 2018

Libyan Coast Guard or NGOs: Italy and the EU have chosen their allies

Joint Press Release Migreurop, EuroMed Rights and FIDH
At the end of 2016, Italy – supported by the EU – initiated a dual strategy to put an end to migrant arrivals from the central Mediterranean: criminalize the rescue of people, and once again make Libya Europe’s policeman. Both dimensions became more pronounced during the summer of 2017, with the imposition of a "code of conduct" on NGOs and the sequestration of vessels of recalcitrant organizations who did not sign up to the code. At the (...)

Libya | Italy | Monitoring and control | Criminalisation of solidarities | Externalisation
16 Aug 2017

The War on Migrants Continues - NGOs harassed in the Mediterranean

The Italian government, supported by EU member states, has reached a new step in the war waged against migrants, criminalizing the NGOs whose task is to rescue them in the Mediterranean.

Libya | Italy | Criminalisation of solidarities
11 May 2009

Illegal refoulement of 500 migrants to Libya: the EU must condemn Italian authorities

Press release

Press release of Euro Meditarranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and Migreurop

Libya | Italy | Forced returns | Externalisation
1 Apr 2009

Shipwreck in the high sea off Libya: an announced tragedy. Until when?

Press release Migreurop

On 29 March 2009, 30 km away from the Libyan coast, there was one of the largest shipwrecks in the history of immigration into Europe: out of three boats that set off from Libya, two sank and the third disappeared.

Italy | Libya | Externalisation | Death at borders
5 Mar 2009

Detention camps in Malta and Lampedusa: Revolts of desperation

Migreurop-press release

A revolt movement has exploded on the 18th of February 2009, in the overcrowded detention centre for migrants on Lampedusa island (South Europe), is not only the result of unacceptable conditions wherein are detained its occupants.

Malta | Italy | Revolts and mobilisations | Detention

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