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Italy's Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese | Photo: ANSA/Claudio Peri
  • Italy
  • Libya

Call for immediate migrant relocations from Libya to Italy

Several humanitarian organizations have sent an appeal to Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese. They want her to immediately allow church charities to carry out five flights to evacuate vulnerable migrants from Libya to Italy.

The 27 migrants who disembarked in the port of Pozzallo on Sicily from the ship Mare Jonio on September 13, 2020 | Photo: ANSA/Mediterranea
  • Italy

UNHCR calls for more EU solidarity after Italy allowed disembarkment of Etienne migrants

Following Italy's permission to let cargo ship Maersk Etienne disembark 27 rescued migrants, UN refugee agency UNHCR has launched a new appeal for the redistribution of migrants at a European level. The migrants had been stranded at sea for 39 days before being allowed to step ashore in Sicily on September 12.

The Mare Jonio ship of Mediterranea Saving Humans | Photo: ANSA/IGOR PETYX
  • Italy

Italy: Quarantine rules for NGO-run migrant rescue ships spark controversy

While migrant landings in Italy in the first half of 2020 have nearly tripled compared to the first semester of 2019, quarantine rules against COVID-19 for migrants rescued at sea have taken center stage. A controversy was sparked by the fact that 67 people who were rescued by Italian vessel Mare Jonio were allowed to disembark in Pozzallo, Sicily, on June 20 while 211 migrants rescued a day later by the German Sea-Watch vessel were transferred to another ship to be quarantined.

The painting "Noah's Ark" by Zehra Dogan | Photo: Zehra Dogan
  • Greece
  • Italy
  • Libya

Prominent Kurdish artist donates work to migrant rescue organization

Artist und activist Zehra Doan is auctioning of one of her artworks to help fund the migrant rescue missions of NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans.

Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans' "Alex" migrant rescue ship carrying 41 migrants rescued off Libya on Thursday as it docks in the port of Lampedusa, Sicily on July 6, 2019 | Photo: ANSA/Elio Desiderio
  • Italy

Italy orders release of NGO migrant rescue boat

An Italian court has ordered the seized sailboat Alex Mediterranea to be released. The ship of the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans was confiscated last July after it had rescued 59 people in the Mediterranean.

A shipwreck that took place in the Strait of Sicily | Photo: ANSA/Italian Navy
  • Italy
  • Libya
  • Tunisia

Europe has turned Mediterranean into migrant graveyard, NGO president claims

The president of Mediterranea Saving Humans has said that European policies have turned the Mediterranean "into a graveyard." An estimated 20,0000 migrants have died on the Mediterranean Route since 2014.

A toddler girls sits on the Mare Jonio ngo migrants rescue ship where she is massed with other migrants, 29 August 2019 | Photo: ANSA/STRINGER
  • Italy

Palermo bestows honorary citizenship on migrant rescuers

The mayor of the Sicilian city of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, on Monday granted honorary citizenship to the crews of three boats involved in rescuing human lives in the Mediterranean Sea.

Italian police officers stand in front of German rescue boat Eleonore as migrants wait to disembark in the port of Pozzallo, Sicily on September 2, 2019 | Credit: Francesco Ruta/ANSA via AP
  • Italy

Migrants on rescue boat Eleonore disembark in Italy

Italian authorities on Monday seized the German rescue boat Eleonore. The rescue boat had been stranded at sea for a week with over 100 migrants aboard. Meanwhile, 31 migrants aboard the rescue ship Mare Jonio were also allowed to disembark on Lampedusa.

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