Eyes on the central Med

[Eyes on the central Med #54] Civil NGO ships threatened by Libyan coast guards, while Italian government promises to provide five “fully equipped” additional boats

[Eyes on the central Med #54] Civil NGO ships threatened by Libyan coast guards, while Italian government promises to provide five “fully equipped” additional boats

[Eyes on the central Med #53] Repeated tragedies at sea mourn the start of 2023

[Eyes on the central Med #52] Year 2022 closes with numerous rescues conducted by civil NGO ships while multiple shipwrecks and lifeless bodies are recorded in the central Mediterranean 

[Eyes on the central Med #51] EU Officials and Frontex accused of implication in human rights violation in the central Mediterranean

[Eyes on the central Med #50] Survivors hostage of political debates for up to 21 days as shipwrecks continue at Europe’s doorstep 

[Eyes on the central Med #49] The morbid threshold of 20,000 deaths in the central Mediterranean since 2014 has been exceeded

[Eyes on the central Med #48] New detention of a civil NGO ship while several devastating shipwrecks claim numerous lives

[Eyes on the central Med #47] UN call “to an urgent need to restore a timely and efficient state-led search and rescue mechanism” after more avoidable tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea

[Eyes on the central Med #46] Survival stories and tragedies in within few days only

[Eyes on the central Med #45] Several large-scale tragedies narrowly avoided

[Eyes on the Central Med #44]  NGOs alert to the danger of “standoffs” at sea and EU court confirms primacy of duty to rescue as summer months lead to predictably high number of Mediterranean crossings