Report of an observation mission in Sicily carried out, between the 1st of February and the 8th of June 2015, by Sabine Llewellyn, volunteering for the network Migreurop within the NGO ARCI to support the activities of Watch the Med, in the frame of the programmes of Echanges et Partenariats.
"Search and Rescue in the Central Mediterranean Sea" is the result of a wide collaboration and analyzes the increasingly security-oriented context and recent evolutions of rescue operations in the (...)
Publications
This section brings together the network’s publications and tools, such as the various editions of the “Atlas of Migration in Europe”, the cartographic work or the collection of Briefs to inform and raise awareness as widely as possible on the network’s major themes or geographical areas of interest.
Articles in this section
Bridges, not weapons!
An appeal for a migrant, asylum seeker and refugee reception policy
It is estimated that over 20,000 people have lost their lives along Europe’s borders over the past 20 years, with almost 2,000 of them perishing in the Mediterranean since the start of 2015. The Member States of the European Union (EU) will address the issue of these repeated tragedies at the 25-6 June European Council meeting.
Our organisations cannot accept the fact that the EU’s institutions are not prioritizing saving lives. On the contrary, the EU and its Member States had no trouble (...)Deaths in the Mediterranean: the European Council’s dishonour
Brussels, 24 April 2015
23 April 2015 was a terrible day: the European Council, that was at last to “take action” as regards a “tragic” situation in the Mediterranean, merely attempted to shelter the European Union and its Member States from migrants by toughening border protection.
The European Union Heads of Government, who met with great ado, had but one message for those thousands of human beings – men, women and children – who risk death and often find it, attempting to reach a place to (...)Migrants in the Mediterranean, 32 organisations across the EU appeal to the European Council
Brussels, 22 April 2015
The signatory organisations are dismayed to learn of the decisions adopted on Monday 20 April by the EU Council of Ministers.
Other than restating a commitment to facilitate the resettlement of refugees and develop relocation initiatives, the Council confines itself to a rhetoric that has not only demonstrated its ineffectiveness, but has led to growing human tragedies at Europe’s maritime borders.
As migrants strive valiantly to save both their lives and their (...)Closing of the 2014-2015 mobilization
The third mobilization – launched in the framework of the Open Access Nowcampaign on October 15 2014 and aimed at denouncing migrants’ detention and the violations of their rights – ends.
Civil society organizations, journalists and parliamentarians visited six-teen camps in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
The right to access camps remains subject to the discretion of the authorities: journalists were left at the door thirteen times out of sixteen. Partial access to these places confirms (...)