Open NGO letter to EU member states’ Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs requesting timely disembarkation arrangements for rescued survivors in the Mediterranean

Related Content open_letter_on_search_rescue.pdf       Dear Minister,   We, the undersigned organisations, networks and platforms, write to you to express our grave concerns and urge you to act over the current crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Since January 2018, at least 2,500 women, children and men have drowned in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, EU leaders have allowed themselves to become complicit in the tragedy unfolding before their eyes.   For over six months, European governments have tried – and failed – to agree on a system that would allow survivors to be disembarked safely when they…

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