At least 150 dead and over 1,000 refugees intercepted in one month, yet Europe continues to blockade the NGO rescuers

In the 31 days since the last NGO rescue ship was seized, the central Mediterranean remains the world’s deadliest border where human rights are insignificant IT HAS been a month since the Italian port authorities seized the last NGO refugee rescue ship operating in the central Mediterranean. In the last 31 days, over 150 people

‘It is absolutely tragic that people have died on Europe’s doorsteps’

IOM spokeswoman SAFA MSEHLI speaks Ben Cowles following a week of refugee tragedies in Libya and the Mediterranean and the importance of NGO rescuers LIBYA is a country in disarray, a war zone battled over by two opposing proxy factions, jihadists, strongmen and human traffickers. In the last week, 30 migrants were gunned down in

Further evidence Libya is unsafe for refugees after 30 killed in unofficial migrant detention centre

IOM estimates 3,980 refugees who attempted to flee the country so far this year have been returned by the Libyan Coastguard REFUGEE rights and rescue organisations have reacted with horror to reports that 30 people were shot dead in one of Libya’s unofficial migrant detention centres this week. The UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA)

‘I pray day and night to get out of Libya’: An interview with a slave (pt.2)

LIBYA is not a safe place. It is not safe for Libyan people and it is certainly not safe for Afghan, Syrian, Bangladeshi, Sudanese, Ivorian or Somali refugees. Since 2014 the country has been fought over by the UN-backed Government of National Accord and the rebel commander Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (which controls the