Category: Refugees

UN experts condemn criminalisation of migrant rescues and threats to the independence of judiciary

Human Rights, International Issues, Mediterranean, Migrants, OHCHR, Refugees, UN

Press Release 18th July 2019 Reproduced Article. GENEVA (18 July 2019) – UN human rights experts* have expressed grave concern over the detention and criminal proceedings in Italy against the German captain of the migrant rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, and stated that the threats to the judge who ruled her release were unlawful. “Rescuing...

Call to Action to Maltese Authorities to allow disembarkation of 40 migrants stranded onboard offshore supply vessel

Abuse, International Issues, Mediterranean, Migrants, Press Release, Refugees

Press Release Thursday 20 July 2018 London.UK. Six days ago, a boat carrying 40 people in distress, including two pregnant women, who sought asylum and protection in Europe had entered the Maltese Search and Rescue (SAR) zone. The migrant boat was denied entry into Malta.  The fact that the migrant boat had reached Malta SAR...

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HRAS Commentary on the ongoing central mediterranean situation

Abuse, 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

Abuse, 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.

Asylum, 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...

HRAS deeply concerned with the latest developments in the central Mediterranean and the seizure of Proactive Open Arms vessel

Asylum, Criminalisation, Mediterranean, Migrants, NGOs, Press Release, Refugees, SAR, Uncategorised

Press Release  21st of March 2018 London. Human Rights at Sea is closely watching the ongoing situation in the central Mediterranean route following the seizure of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms vessel and crew by the Italian authorities in Sicilia during a search and rescue operation. During the operation, the NGO vessel refused to hand...

Italy sees major drop in migrant crossings from Libya to Europe. But is the cost too high?

Abuse, Articles, Human Rights, International Issues, Mediterranean, Migrants, Refugees

Human Rights at Sea comments in the recent article by The Christian Science Monitor about the increasing concern about the actions of the Italian State and European Union in trampling on customary humanitarian principles and international human rights law relating to migrants and refugees returned to Libya, and the well-documented human rights abuses suffered...

HRAS Intern becomes Erasmus+ Ambassador

HRAS, Human Rights, International Issues, Internship, Mediterranean, Migrants, Refugees, rescue, SAR

Melanie Glodkiewicz selected as an Erasmus+ Ambassador “My internship has been a life-changing period” Wednesday 14 June 2016 Human Rights at Sea is delighted to announce that a former intern, Miss Melanie Glodkiewicz, has been selected to become a European Erasmus+ Programme ambassador following her work on Mediterranean migrant projects for the charity and while seconded to...

European Parliament: Human Rights at Sea outlines voluntary SAR NGO Code of Conduct

Criminalisation, NGOs, Policy, Press Release, Refugees, rescue, SAR

  PRESS RELEASE 31 March 2017 Human Rights at Sea outlines the first voluntary Code of Conduct for Search and Rescue NGOs in the European Parliament On Wednesday 29 March, CEO David Hammond spoke in the European Parliament to outline the new voluntary ‘Code of Conduct for Search and Rescue Operations undertaken by civil...

The HRAS Interview: Alexandra Bilak – Director Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Human Rights, International Issues, Interview, Migrants, Refugees

Migrants are the tip of the iceberg Hundreds of thousands of people have put their life at risk at sea to reach European shores. Their bravery and despair has drawn wide media attention. In reality, though, they are the tip of the iceberg. There were 40.8 million people displaced within national borders worldwide as...

The HRAS Interview: Giorgia Linardi – Mediterranean Migrants

Human Rights, International Issues, NGOs, Refugees, rescue, SAR, Smuggling, Trafficking

Mediterranean Migrants: Becoming Part of the System At sea, rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, 25-year-old Giorgia Linardi met a woman that reminder of her mother. Like her mother, the woman was a doctor, a specialist; their ages were similar. But, unlike her mother, this woman had lost her family, her home, had no phone...

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