search and rescue operations

Aquarius Forced To End Operations Ikram N'gadi Op-ed

Sea Search and Rescue Operations Outlawed

Le Monde
12/12/2018 Michaël Neuman Mego Terzian

Dont acte, la politique de harcèlement judiciaire, administratif, politique aura eu raison de l’Aquarius, déployé entre 2015 et le milieu de l’année 2018 en mer Méditerranée.
Tribune de Mego Terzian (Médecin, président de Médecins sans frontières) et Michaël Neuman (Directeur d'études au CRASH de MSF) publiée le 07 décembre 2018 dans Le Monde.

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Bourbon Argos: Search and Rescue Operations October 2016 Borja Ruiz Rodriguez/MSF Op-ed

Humanitarian reasons versus political interests

07/11/2018 Rony Brauman

Humanitarian organisations coming to the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea are kindly required either to watch them drown or to hand them over to human traffickers and torturers. We have seen countless political statements, opinion polls and editorials on the need to take a harder line against African migrants and accusing NGOs of being the accomplices of “smugglers”. We have even heard it said that these NGOs are organising the departures of those aspiring to migrate to Europe coincide with the presence of a rescue ship, making relief workers conscious actors in a criminal enterprise.

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Boats transporting migrants are abandonned in Pozzallo port Luca Visone Analysis

Boats

04/20/2015 Eleanor Davey

This post tells of the 'Boat for the Vietnam' episode, the MSF Search and Rescue operations to be launched in the Mediterranean and the notable absence of the Australian section of MSF from any debate on refugee policy in that country.

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