Closing safe and legal options for people to reach Europe pushes them further into people smugglers’ networks. In Libya, the detention of migrants and refugees is a thriving enterprise of kidnapping and extortion.
MSF is saving the lives of people trying to cross the central Mediterranean Sea with our own search and rescue vessel, Oyvon. We also provide assistance to people arriving in Europe.
Webclip - 3 Things to Know: Impact of Migration Policies
3 things to know - the impact of migration policies
The EU's migration policies are having a direct impact across the Mediterranean Sea, while people are trying to flee dangerous conditions in Libya. Here are three ways that the EU's policies on migration impact on the lives of people trying to seek safety.
After seven rescues from the central Mediterranean, 470 people need a place of safety
Over 100 deaths at sea in one week as European States look away
Survivors of “most difficult rescue” need immediate place of safety
Italy-Libya agreement: Five years of EU-sponsored abuse in Libya and the central Mediterranean
Hundreds of people require port of safety after multiple rescues from Central Mediterranean
The father who faced the sea so his sons might go to school
Ten more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route
Search and rescue: “They describe Libya as hell”
Nearly 400 people rescued from the Mediterranean need a place of safety
Research and analysis
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