EU Parliament Archives - Human Rights At Sea

Frontex aware of human rights violations in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea but failed to act finds EU Report

16th July 202116th July 2021EU Commission, EU Parliament, European Union, Human Rights, International Issues, Migrants & Refugees, Press Release

Yesterday the EU Rapporteur on Frontex, Mrs. Tineke Strik published her Report on the fact-finding investigation on Frontex concerning alleged fundamental rights violations, including in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

HRAS deplores the arrest of Captain Carola Rackete

29th June 20191st July 2019EU Commission, EU Parliament, European Union, Event, HRAS, Human Rights, International Issues, Mediterranean

Press Release 29th June 2019 Photo Credit:Carola Rackete REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane London. UK. The arrest in the early hours this morning in the Italian port of Lampedusa of Carola Rackete, the German captain of the Dutch-flagged humanitarian rescue vessel, Sea-Watch 3, who defied the imposed ban to disembark migrants saved from a rubber dinghy off the coast of Libya...

This is EU foreign policy: If you don´t want to see these pictures – stop us producing them

31st May 201631st May 2016EU Commission, EU Parliament, European Union, Human Rights, International Issues, Migrants, NGOs, Refugees, rescue, SAR

Source: SeaWatch From the frontline SeaWatch teams working to save life in the Mediterranean. After witnessing a series of boats accidents including capsized boats with many dead in the Central Mediterranean Sea last week, Sea-Watch is now striking a balance and publishing tragic pictures that have to be acknowledged by the European society as the...

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