News and Publications from the Med

Evacuation, not Externalisation

From June to now, we have seen a significant increase in arrivals compared to previous months.

Summertime 2024: the frequency of civil fleet rescue cooperations in the Central Mediterranean is increasing again to almost a daily level. A Tunisian Search and Rescue Region is established to extend the EU push-back regime. After the Tories were voted out of office, the UK-Rwanda agreement is finally dead. The Meloni government counts on the...

In an important decision published on the 13th of June 2024, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe assessed that Italy had failed to adequately implement the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights J.A. and others v. Italy (Appeal No. 21329/18) regarding the detention and conditions inside the Hotspot of Lampedusa and called on...

At the time of publication, Israel's assault on Gaza will be close to entering its seventh month, with a human cost of 30,000 lives at conservative estimates – not including the 416 killed and 4,658 injured since October in the West Bank – with many thousands more lost beneath the rubble of a nearly flattened region that was once home...

After more than three years of (mis)management by the Badia Grande cooperative, on June 1st, 2023, the hotspot of Lampedusa came under the management of the Italian Red Cross (hereafter CRI). This happened within the broader terms (narrative, logistical, and economic) of the declaration of "State of Emergency" for migration made by the Italian...

Sunday morning the bodies of 13 people left Lampedusa, on board the ferry SIREMAR, headed to Porto Empedocle.

During the month of may 2024, in Tunisia forced deportations at the borders with Algeria and Lybia still continued; arrestations of activistes, lawyers and journalists came after the Security Council of May the 6th. Racism keep on being present on member of Parliamet's propositions and public intervantions.

The man on the picture liberated himself when he jumped from a so-called Libyan Coast Guards ship into the sea and escaped an intended pushback to Libya. A few days after, the IUVENTA crew liberated themselves from a seven-year long odyssey of criminalization, after the court finally had to drop all charges. Celebrated as a public holiday in Italy,...