Tag: SeaWatch

OP-ED: Sea-Watch Captain freed. A victory for humanitarian rescue at sea.

Abuse, Criminalisation, Detention, European Union, Human Rights, Legal, Mediterranean, Migrants, NGOs, Press Release, SAR

OP-ED 5 July 2019 Photo credit: Reuters Geneva, Switzerland. Captain Carola Rackete has now been freed, but the European political controversy continues. The judicial decision delivered a much needed victory for both common-sense and humanitarian acts of rescue at sea, thereby setting a precedent to be reflected on for all vessel Captains and policy makers...

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...

Updated Sea-Watch Rescue blog – HRAS Intern Melanie Glodkiewicz

Blog, Mediterranean, Migrants

  Human Rights at Sea first Erasmus Intern, Melanie Glodkiewicz, is currently offshore Libya undertaking her internship secondment to the German NGO, Sea-Watch. Melanie will be regularly posting her experiences and commentary of her experiences – www.hras-seawatch.org  My secondment to Sea-Watch has now started. I have joined the new crew for the next SAR operation...

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

EU 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...

Updated SeaWatch Migrant Rescue Blog – operations in the Mediterranean

Articles, Blog, Human Rights, International Issues, Migrants, NGOs, Refugees

The SeaWatch Migrant Rescue Blog has been updated with the latest operations from the island of Levsos, Greece. Launching the latest missions, successful rescues are underway. On November 16th the first operation of Sea-Watch in the Aegean Sea took place, with a successful outcome. The German organisation have been actively involved in two rescues,...

Migrant rescue: SeaWatch Blog update – Team in Lampedusa

Articles, Asylum, Blog, European Union, International Issues, Migrants, NGOs, Press Release, Refugees, Smuggling, Supporting Entities, Trafficking

The SeaWatch project blog has been updated Latest news is that the SeaWatch team are now to be based in Lampedusa, Italy. “After seemingly ending the day with a brief media interview and meeting with one of Save the Children’s representatives working at the Island’s purposely built refugee camp, Harald, Peter and I headed...

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