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

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
  • Tunisia
  • Libya
  • Italy

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.