Coastguards urged not to stand by as another refugee boat sinks

The Open Arms rescue ship now carries 217 after a pregnant woman and her brother are evacuated to Italy EUROPEAN and Libyan coastguards were urged not to stand by and watch today as another refugee boat in the central Mediterranean appeared to be sinking. The activist network Alarm Phone announced at 9am that it had

102 refugees brought to safety while hundreds more were left to their own fates

THOUGH 102 refugees finally made it to safety today, it has been a harrowing couple of days in the central Mediterranean. The Italian authorities on Sunday gave the crew of the NGO refugee rescue ship Aita Mari permission to disembark the 102 people they saved in Malta’s search-and-rescue (SAR) zone last Friday, in Augusta, Sicily.

Activists launch mission to support refugees crossing the English Channel

Channel Rescue aims to safely monitor and document arrivals and to provide compassionate care and refuge to those arriving on Kent’s shore Story by Georgina Trace ACTIVISTS in Kent have launched a mission to ensure the human rights of refugees attempting to cross the Channel are upheld. Channel Rescue, a grassroots organisation which received over

NGO refugee rescuers unimpressed by EU’s proposals for a new migration and asylum pact

REFUGEE rescue and aid organisations have been left unimpressed by the European Commission’s plans for a new pact on migration and asylum. Commission president Ursula von der Leyen laid out its proposals to fix the EU’s ad-hoc approach for migrants and refugees at a press conference on Wednesday morning. “We have created a complex internal

125 refugees on the Alan Kurdi continue four-day wait for land

Meanwhile, the fates of 4 people intercepted by the EU-supported Libyan Coastguard remain unknown THE Italian coastguard evacuated eight people this morning from an NGO refugee rescue ship whose calls for help had been ignored for four days. The Alan Kurdi picked up 133 people, including 62 minors, from three boats in the central Mediterranean

Far right mob Britain First launch ‘migrant patrol’ ship off Dover

Refugee rights organisations raise concerns over Priti Patel’s plans to use Royal Navy to make the Channel ‘unviable’ for migrants FAR-RIGHT mob Britain First launched a sailing ship at the weekend to carry out “migrant patrols” in the Channel. The hate group, whose leader Paul Golding was convicted of an offence under the Terrorism Act

Calls raised to ‘defund Frontex’ on anniversary of unlawful arrest of NGO refugee rescue ship captain

EUROPEAN citizens should echo US Black Lives Matter activists’ calls to defund the police by demanding an end to the European Union’s border and coastguard agency (Frontex) a former NGO refugee captain has said. Former Sea Watch 3 skipper Carola Rackete made the call in a statement today, the one-year anniversary of when she and

Activists slam Malta’s delayed rescue of refugees who were adrift at sea since Sunday

Alarm Phone says ‘it is simply outrageous that Malta knew about this case for so many hours and chose to not intervene’ AROUND 75 refugees, including children and several pregnant women, were rescued today after having been adrift in the Mediterranean since Sunday on a leaky boat with no food. The boat contacted Alarm Phone,

Over 1,000 refugees have drowned in the Mediterranean in 2019

This marks the sixth year in a row that so many refugees have died attempting to cross over to Europe OVER one thousand refugees have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean in 2019, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported today. UNHCR spokesman Charlie Yaxley told the Star: “Reaching this milestone once is