THE European maritime authorities are ducking their responsibility for refugees crossing the Mediterranean and, worse, are referring NGO rescue ships to “criminal groups,” the refugee rescue fleet has told the Star. Two NGO-operated ships, the Alan Kurdi and the Ocean Viking, saved over 100 people from unseaworthy boats during three separate missions in the centralContinue reading “Europe suggests NGO rescuers hand refugees back to Libya’s ‘criminal groups’”
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European inaction condemned as NGOs rescue over 100 people in one day in the Mediterranean
ACTIVISTS condemned European inaction today after two NGO refugee rescue ships saved the lives of over 100 people in the Mediterranean yesterday. Alarm Phone, an activist network which provides support for people crossing Europe’s deadliest border, was contacted on Thursday by three separate groups of people in distress at sea while attempting to flee Libya.Continue reading “European inaction condemned as NGOs rescue over 100 people in one day in the Mediterranean”
EU accused of ‘institutional racism’ in the way it handles Mediterranean rescues
‘If white Europeans had been on the boat, they probably wouldn’t have had to wait so long,’ NGO says after EU nations ignored the boat’s distress call THE European Union was accused of institutional racism for the way it handles rescues in the Mediterranean today after calls about another refugee boat in distress went unanswered.Continue reading “EU accused of ‘institutional racism’ in the way it handles Mediterranean rescues”
Refugees tell rescuers of horrors in Libya
REFUGEES who were rescued last week from a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean while attempting to flee Libya have told their rescuers of the horrific abuse they witnessed or were subjected to in the war-torn country. A 20-year-old man from Ivory Coast told the crew of the Ocean Viking — a civil refugee rescue shipContinue reading “Refugees tell rescuers of horrors in Libya”
EU-funded Libyan Coastguard has returned over half the refugees who tried to flee the country by sea
The civil migrant rescue fleet condemns Europe’s border policies after the UNHCR publishes the shocking data THE civil refugee rescue fleet has denounced Europe’s border policies after a United Nations report published today found that the EU-funded Libyan coastguard has returned over half of the people who have tried to flee the war-torn country byContinue reading “EU-funded Libyan Coastguard has returned over half the refugees who tried to flee the country by sea”
NGO rescue ships dismayed by EU’s failure to agree to migrant disembarkation plans
THE civil refugee rescue fleet has expressed dismay over the EU’s failure yesterday to agree to a temporary scheme to distribute refugees saved from a watery grave in the Mediterranean. The emergency mechanism put to the meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg yesterday was drafted by France, Germany, Italy and Malta last month afterContinue reading “NGO rescue ships dismayed by EU’s failure to agree to migrant disembarkation plans”
‘It will not be easy to reconcile how Europe is allowing this to happen’
HANNAH WALLACE BOWMAN speaks about her time on board the Ocean Viking, an NGO migrant rescue ship that has saved hundreds of lives despite Fortress Europe’s dogged efforts to stop them “I CAN’T even begin to describe how overwhelming the situation in Libya and the Mediterranean is,” says Hannah Wallace Bowman, communications manager on boardContinue reading “‘It will not be easy to reconcile how Europe is allowing this to happen’”
Plight over for the Ocean Viking’s 182 refugees after landing in Italy
ONE hundred and eighty-two refugees finally disembarked from an NGO migrant rescue ship in Italy this morning after spending a week adrift at sea. Over 200 refugees were fished out of the Mediterranean sea in three separate operations by the crew aboard the Ocean Viking, a ship operated by the French charities SOS Mediterranee andContinue reading “Plight over for the Ocean Viking’s 182 refugees after landing in Italy”
EU complicit in Libyan Coastguard’s ‘crimes against humanity,’ migrant rescue NGO charges
THE European Union is complicit in “crimes against humanity” because of its support for the Libyan coastguard, a migrant rescue charity said today following the killing of a Sudanese man whose escape from Libya was intercepted by the EU-funded operation. Doctors from the intergovernmental group International Organisation for Migration (IOM) witnessed the tragedy on ThursdayContinue reading “EU complicit in Libyan Coastguard’s ‘crimes against humanity,’ migrant rescue NGO charges”
Italy claims EU agrees deal to take in migrants on the Ocean Viking but crew says it’s not been given a port
THE NGO migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking with 82 migrants on board remains at sea without a port of safety despite Italy declaring yesterday that it had reached a deal with EU countries to take them in. Yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said his new government, along with the Democratic Party, had reached aContinue reading “Italy claims EU agrees deal to take in migrants on the Ocean Viking but crew says it’s not been given a port”
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