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Life Support Search and Rescue Updates
20 August 2026 48 Survivors Disembark in Bari The 48 survivors remaining on board EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel Life Support disembarked this morning at the port of Bari, three days after their rescue in international waters within the Libyan SAR zone. Once all survivors had disembarked at around 11:45am, operations began to bring ashore…
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Life Support Missions 21-42 Archive
This page is an archive for Life Support updates on missions 21-42. For current updates, please head to the live page. 12 April 2026 71 People Disembark in La Spezia On 12 April, 71 people rescued by Life Support disembarked at La Spezia, Italy, their assigned Place of Safety. The port is over 640 nautical…
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Yet another worrying setback in the Mediterranean
Yet another worrying setback for the safeguards in place for people seeking international protection in the European Union. The European Parliament’s green light for the common European list of “safe third countries,” which includes Tunisia, externalises responsibility for and management of migration, undermines the Refugee Convention, and makes the EU complicit in human rights violations,…
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Life Support Search and Rescue Missions 11-20
This page is an archive for Life Support updates on missions 11-20. For current updates, please head to the live page. 30 June 2024 Mission 20 Complete: 47 Rescued People Disembark in Livorno The 47 people rescued by Life Support on 26 June have disembarked at the port of Livorno. While en route to the port,…
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Life Support Search and Rescue Missions 1-10
This page is an archive for Life Support updates on missions 1-10. For current updates, please head to the live page. 14 August 2023 The 76 rescued people have disembarked in Naples. “Thank you! Thank you!” were the shouts as the 76 people rescued by Life Support disembarked in Naples. 24 children – 12 unaccompanied –…
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“Now I Am Afraid We Will Never See Each Other Again.”
G. and her two-year-old son were rescued by Life Support while crossing the Central Mediterranean, the world’s deadliest migration route. “The father of my son is now in Libya,” the 22-year-old Eritrean told us. “We wanted to rescue little N. from that hell, but we did not have the money to pay for three people…
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500 People Abducted At Sea! Malta Coordinates Criminal Mass Pushback By Proxy To A Libyan Prison!
Joint Statement by Alarm Phone, Sea-Watch, Mediterranea Saving Humans and EMERGENCY 29 May 2023 The ~500 people being towed back to Libya, Foto: Consolidated Rescue Group “They fled wars and prisons in Syria, and now, unfortunately, they have been returned to Libya.” (A relative of people on board, reporting the pushback to Alarm Phone) In…
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Tunisia is neither a safe country of origin nor a place of safety for those rescued at sea
Joint Statement by Civil Search And Rescue Organizations and migrants solidarity networks We, the undersigned organisations, issue this statement to remind once again that Tunisia is neither a safe country of origin nor a safe third country. Therefore, it cannot be considered as a place of safety for people rescued at sea. Given the Tunisian…
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When he left Nigeria, K. was 14 years old.
“For two years I travelled alone, knowing that there was no one there to help me and that I was the only one who would take care of me. Many times I thought about my parents, who remained in Nigeria.” When he left Nigeria, K. was 14 years old. He was chosen by his family…
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LIVORNO: DISEMBARKATION OF 142 RESCUED PEOPLE ONBOARD EMERGENCY’S SHIP LIFE SUPPORT CONCLUDED
EMERGENCY LANDS IN LIVORNO AFTER TWO NIGHTTIME OPERATIONS IN 24 HOURS: 142 PEOPLE RESCUED Livorno, 22.12.22 – At 08:15, EMERGENCY finished disembarking the 142 people rescued by Life Support during the nights of 18 and 19 December. The survivors come from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Eritrea, Guinea, Mali, Pakistan, and Somalia. There are…