New decree obstructs lifesaving rescue efforts at sea and will cause more deaths

Artwork of “Porta d’Europa” and Lampedusa Cemetery, 2022. Photo: Alarm Phone We, civil organisations engaged in search and rescue (SAR) activities in the central Mediterranean Sea, express our gravest concerns regarding the latest attempt by a European government to obstruct assistance to people in distress at sea. A new law decree, signed by the Italian […]

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Left behind at sea: only 3 survivors from a boat with at least 53 people found on the cliffs of Tan-tan

Last GPS position the Alarm Phone received from the boat. Photo: Alarm Phone Only three survivors have been located on the cliffs of Tan-tan, Morocco and at least 50 people are dead or missing. The lack of assistance to people in distress by the Moroccan authorities for 12 days and with poor coordination with the […]

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Left behind at sea: only 3 survivors from a boat with at least 53 people found on the cliffs of Tan-tan

Last GPS position the Alarm Phone received from the boat. Photo: Alarm Phone Only three survivors have been located on the cliffs of Tan-tan, Morocco and at least 50 people are dead or missing. The lack of assistance to people in distress by the Moroccan authorities for 12 days and with poor coordination with the […]

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Another attempt to cover up the real crimes

Ελληνικά παρακάτω In the morning of Friday, December 15, 2022, a two-month-old baby died on the island of Lesvos. Alarm Phone was informed about the shipwreck of the group that the baby was with, and forwarded the alert to authorities and other actors – just like several times before when people in need of rescue […]

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The deadly line: militarised borders lead to more deaths in the English Channel

This morning news again broke that people have drowned in the Channel after a rubber dinghy with approximately 47 people onboard appears to have broken apart at sea. Details of the event are still emerging, but the location of the initial search and rescue operation – on the border line separating British and French territorial […]

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Banner drops along Amsterdam Light Festival route

Today, 2 December, 100 activists from Alarm Phone hung 12 banners with lights on bridges along the Amsterdam Light Festival route. With texts like “Bridges not Borders,” “No One is Illegal” and “Break Down Deadly Borders,” the activists criticize European and Dutch migration policies. Founded in 2014 as a 24/7 hotline for people on the […]

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Yet another tragedy of the coast of Zarzis: the search for truth and justice

Photo: Felice Rosa The Mediterranean Sea has returned the bodies of the victims of the shipwreck of a boat which left from Zarzis, in the South of Tunisia, in mid-September. The families of the citizens of the city demand dignity for all, practical engagement from the authorities in the search for the remaining bodies missing […]

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8 Years of Struggle!

Photo: Alarm Phone Eight years ago, on 11 October 2014, we launched the Alarm Phone, a hotline for people in distress at sea. We chose that day as it was the anniversary of a disaster that had occurred on 11 October 2013, when Italian and Maltese authorities delayed the rescue of a sinking boat. Due […]

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8 Years of Struggle!

Photo: Alarm Phone Eight years ago, on 11 October 2014, we launched the Alarm Phone, a hotline for people in distress at sea. We chose that day as it was the anniversary of a disaster that had occurred on 11 October 2013, when Italian and Maltese authorities delayed the rescue of a sinking boat. Due […]

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Press release by Association des Mères de Migrants Disparus

We, as the Association des Mères de Migrants Disparus (Mothers of Disappeared Migrants) and on behalf of the mothers and sisters of the disappeared, denounce the statement of the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which we consider shameful and damaging to the dignity, despising their feeling of distress after the loss […]

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