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November 21, 2018 News Release

Libya: Migrants Forced off Ship at Libya Port

Misrata Security Forces Use Force After Rescued People Refuse to Land

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October 3, 2018 Letter

Save the Aquarius, Save Lives

Joint NGO Letter

A wooden boat carrying 29 people, mainly Syrians, just before their rescue and transfer to the Aquarius. October 10, 2017
October 3, 2018 News Release

Europe: Save Mediterranean Rescue Ship

Aquarius Has Saved Thousands of Lives

A wooden boat carrying 29 people, mainly Syrians, just before their rescue and transfer to the Aquarius. October 10, 2017
September 26, 2018 Dispatches

New Low for Italian Migration Policies

Preventing Rescue at Sea, Punishing Survivors on Land

A wooden boat carrying 29 people, mainly Syrians, just before their rescue and transfer to the Aquarius. October 10, 2017
September 17, 2018 Commentary

About the Mediterranean, Start with Saving Lives

Migrants are seen onboard the charity ship Lifeline at Boiler Wharf in Senglea, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Malta June 27, 2018.
September 3, 2018 News Release

Cluster Munition Coalition Statement on Stockpile Destruction to the Convention on Cluster Munitions Eighth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva

Delivered by Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director, Arms Division

August 22, 2018 Dispatches

Rescued Migrants Held Hostage to Politics

Italy Should Immediately Allow Disembarkation

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July 25, 2018 Report

EU/Italy/Libya: Disputes Over Rescues Put Lives at Risk

Allow European Rescues, Agree on Safe Disembarkation

SOS MEDITERRANEE crew rescue people off an over-crowded rubber boat in the Mediterranean, June 9, 2018.
July 3, 2018 Dispatches

Europe is Losing its Moral Compass in the Mediterranean

EU Should Support, Not Obstruct, Rescue at Sea

Migrants are seen onboard the charity ship Lifeline at Boiler Wharf in Senglea, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Malta June 27, 2018.
June 14, 2018 Dispatches

Stranding People at Sea is an Abomination

Italy and Malta’s Move Puts Lives in Danger

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June 11, 2018 Commentary

Italy’s Dangerous Direction on Migration

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini arrives at the Republic Day military parade in Rome, Italy, June 2, 2018.
April 23, 2018 Commentary

Proactiva’s Release Does Not Spell End of Italy’s War on Rescue Groups

Italian judge’s releases rescue ship but upholds legal fiction of Libyan search and rescue zone. Judith Sunderland from Human Rights Watch explains why the contradiction matters.

A rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) approaches the MV Open Arms, the search and rescue ship of Proactiva Open Arms, in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya, December 16, 2017
March 19, 2018 News Release

Italy: Migrant Rescue Ship Impounded

Don’t Criminalize Saving Lives

Proactiva’s rescue ship Open Arms on mission in November 2017.
March 16, 2018 Dispatches

In a Man’s Death, a Glimpse of Libya’s Horrors

Europe Should Help End Cycle of Detention, Violence in Libya

Segen, a 22-year-old Eritrean, stares into the camera before disembarking in Pozzallo, Sicily, from the Pro Activa Open Arms rescue ship on March 13, 2018. He died several hours later.
March 14, 2018 Dispatches

Italy Shuts Down ‘Worrying’ Migrant Hotspot

Temporary Closure Follows Protests About Degrading Conditions

Migrants disembark from the SOS Mediterranee ship Aquarius at the Italian island of Lampedusa, April 18, 2016.

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