No access to asylum on the territory since 27 May 2020

Since 27 May 2020, it is almost impossible to access the asylum procedure in Hungary. Our new information note summarises the litigation struggle of clients represented by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), who lawfully entered … Read more

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30 people die due to non-assistance by the Italian authorities

Source: Alarm Phone The Alarm Phone was alerted by 47 people on a boat in distress, trying to escape from the inhumane conditions in Libya. They relayed their GPS position (N 33°56, E018°28) which we forwarded to the Italian, Maltese, and Libyan authorities at 2:28h CET on 11 March. The situation was critical. The boat was adrift. […]

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Cutro shipwreck: Associations file a collective complaint with the Office of the Public Prosecutor

More than 40 Italian and European civil society associations submitted a collective complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Crotone Court asking for an investigation into last Sunday’s shipwreck in Steccato di Cutro, which cost the lives of at least 72 people, including many children. “In the face of so many dead and who […]

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For the implementation of freedom of correspondence with the outside world and provision of a Wi-Fi network at the Lampedusa hotspot

We are organizations that for years have been involved in search and rescue at sea, in struggles for the rights of people on the move and the creation of support infrastructures and solidarity with migrants. After having approached the competent authorities – by means of a letter addressed to the Prefecture of Agrigento and for […]

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After the Crotone shipwreck

CommemorAction in Izmir 2022. Photo: Anonymous The Alarm Phone stands by your side. The shipwreck that occurred at dawn on 26 February just off the Calabrian coast near Steccato di Cutro (Crotone, Italy) shook us deeply. Only 81 people survived, while to date 67 bodies have been recovered and several are still missing. Since that […]

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