search and rescue

The UN Refugee Agency is calling on European governments to allow the immediate disembarkation of 507 people recently rescued on the Central Mediterranean who remain stranded at sea.

UN human rights experts have expressed grave concern over the detention and criminal proceedings against the German captain of the Sea-Watch 3, and said the threats to the judge who ruled her release were unlawful. 

European leaders are distorting the debate on migration for political gain and abandoning refugees and migrants at sea, Amnesty International says.

More than 1,500 refugees and migrants have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the first seven months of this year.