Press releases and statements

Cutro Shipwreck: Civil Party NGOs Welcome Indictement as a Step Toward Truth and Justice

The obstruction of SAR vessels causes hundreds of deaths at sea

Italian Constitutional Court reinforces maritime law

Piantedosi law: Hearing in the Constitutional Court tomorrow

[JOINT STATEMENT] “Flows decree” approved in Italian senate: punitive approach towards distressed people and NGOs

The Constitutional Court called upon to rule on the Piantedosi decree

Joint Statement: Tunisia is Not a Place of Safety for People Rescued at Sea

[PRESS RELEASE] Humanitarian NGOs remain only witness of the bloody catastrophe in the central Mediterranean

[JOINT STATEMENT] Italy’s obstruction of search and rescue activities is endangering people’s lives

[PRESS RELEASE] Ocean Viking detained on false declarations of erratic Libyan patrol vessels violating maritime law.

[PRESS RELEASE] Ocean Viking paying the price for lack of coordination from Libyan maritime authorities with 20-day administrative detention and fine

[STATEMENT] The French Human Rights Consultative Commission calls on France to “defend the effective implementation of migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean”