Libya Archives - Human Rights At Sea

‘LIFEBOAT’ migrant rescue film to be shown at Second International Maritime Human Rights Conference

26th August 201826th August 2018Films, International Issues, Libya, Mediterranean, Migrants

PRESS RELEASE Immediate London UK. The short award-winning film ‘LIFEBOAT’ is to be shown at the second International Maritime Human Rights (IMHR) conference on 29 October 2018 to be held at the historic and newly furbished Fishmongers’ Hall, London. LIFEBOAT showcases refugees desperate enough to risk their lives in rubber boats leaving Libya in...

Open letter to UNHCR

1st August 20181st August 2018Asylum, Detention, European Union, Letters, Libya, Mediterranean

PRESS RELEASE 31 July 2018 London. UK. Human Rights at Sea has joined nine other leading NGOs in an open letter to UNHCR over the ongoing handling of the Mediterranean crisis. To the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Filippo Grandi, The signing organizations have been closely monitoring the latest developments...

HRAS Commentary on the ongoing central mediterranean situation

9th July 20189th July 2018Abuse, Articles, Asylum, European Union, Libya, Mediterranean, NGOs, Refugees, SAR, UNHCR

HRAS Commentary Monday 9 July 2018 “We could have done something,” – Taking the conscious political decision of leaving persons to drown or suffer from abuse London.UK. Corpses are discovered on Northern African shores, over 600 persons are now missing and feared dead because they embarked on the journey of the deadliest crossing in...

Legal action before the ECtHR against Italy over its coordination of Libyan Coast Guard pull-backs resulting in migrant deaths and abuse

8th May 201812th June 2018Abuse, Detention, ECtHR, European Union, HRAS, Human Rights, Libya, Mediterranean, Migrants, Migrants & Refugees, Press Release, Press Releases, Refugees, SAR, Uncategorised

Press Release 8 May 2018 London. Italy’s collaboration with Libya to stop migrants and asylum seekers reaching Europe is facing a legal challenge over allegations that it has led to grave human rights violations against those crossing the Mediterranean, including torture and slavery. Seventeen survivors of a fatal incident in which a boat carrying migrants...

Court of Cassation Rome decides against the release of SAR vessel IUVENTA of Jugend Rettet E.V.

27th April 201812th June 2018Asylum, Criminalisation, HRAS, Human Rights, Libya, Migrants, Press Release, Press Releases, Refugees, rescue, SAR

Press Release 27 APRIL 2018 London. Human Rights at Sea is closely watching the ongoing situation in the central Mediterranean route, and is deeply concerned with the restrictive asylum policies of the European Union and the general securitisation and criminalisation of search and rescue at sea. What we are witnessing is push backs operations of...

[Updated] Planned EU NGO Code of Conduct threatens life-saving search and rescue operations

6th July 201711th July 2017EU Commission, European Union, Libya, Mediterranean, Migrants, Press Release

PRESS RELEASE Immediate 6 July 2017 Planned EU NGO Code of Conduct threatens life-saving search and rescue operations “Failure to sign this Code of Conduct or failure to comply with its obligations may result in the refusal by the Italian State to authorize the access to national ports, subject to compliance with the existing...

HRAS CEO speaks to the BBC Mediterranean migrant issue

31st August 201631st August 2016Libya, Mediterranean, Migrants, Refugees, rescue, Resources, Videos

Human Rights at Sea CEO David Hammond speaks to the BBC about the current migrant issues in the Mediterranean. CEO David Hammond speaks to BBC News...

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