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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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EMERGENCY Signs Joint Letter Calling for Suspension of EU-Libya Cooperation
EMERGENCY has signed a joint statement alongside a group of NGOs to denounce the recent attack made on Ocean Viking, the search and rescue vessel operated by SOS Mediterranee, and demanding the immediate suspension of the EU’s cooperation with Libya. Read our letter to EU Commissioners Magnus Brunner and Dubravka Šuica in full below. Dear…
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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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Roundtable on Trafficking in Persons at Sea
This week, EMERGENCY participated in the roundtable discussion, ‘Trafficking in persons, mixed movements and protection at sea.’ Organised by Siobhán Mullally, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, the event focused on the challenges of identifying and protecting victims of trafficking during search and rescue operations at sea. Growing restrictions on…
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“Beyond the Beach”: Full Documentary Film Available Now
EMERGENCY is happy to announce that Dover Street Entertainment’s documentary film, “Beyond the Beach – The Hell and the Hope”, is now available on Amazon Prime Video across the UK, US and Italy following its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. “Beyond the Beach” follows EMERGENCY’s humanitarian projects in Afghanistan, in Iraqi Kurdistan, and…
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“For now, being alive is enough.”
“I left because of the war. One day there was a shooting in my city and my family and I fled in different directions. To this day I still don’t know what happened to them.” On board Life Support last year, Joseph* recounted his story. Fleeing his home in sub-Saharan Africa, Joseph went to Congo,…
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Our Wish for 2024
In the last 10 years, more than 28,000 migrating people have drowned in the Mediterranean. Our wish for 2024: No more indifference. No more deaths at sea. Credits Creative Agency: Ogilvy Italia President & Chief Creative Officer: Giuseppe Mastromatteo Executive Creative Directors: Lavinia Francia, Francesco Basile Client Creative Directors: Alberto Crignola, Nicolò Mondonico Head of Strategy: Luca Tapognani…
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Testimonies from Life Support on International Migrants Day
For many people, migration means facing violence, abuse, death. In the central Mediterranean alone, over 28,000 people have disappeared since 2014 while attempting the crossing. At least 61 more people were victims of yesterday’s shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the latest we know of. And there are more deaths that no one knows about,…