Tag: SAR NGOs

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...

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

EU 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...

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...

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