After leaving the port of Barcelona on 4 November, the Open Arms vessel headed towards the Mediterranean for its 78th search and rescue mission, together with EMERGENCY. We have found ourselves having to operate in a difficult and dramatic context. There were many reports of boats in difficulty that needed to be rescued, but no […]

Armed men attacked Kabul University this morning with explosions and gunfire heard coming from the campus. “We already admitted two students at our Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul. They jumped the university’s wall to escape. Sadly, the violence never ceases here in Kabul,” states Marco Puntin, EMERGENCY’s Programme Coordinator in Afghanistan. According to […]

After 11 days of clashes between Afghan security forces and the Taliban, fighting continues in Helmand province. 35,000 people are estimated to have been displaced so far. “Since 11 October, we have hospitalised 118 patients and are working tirelessly to treat everyone who arrives at our hospital. We remain open and we are ready to […]

The fighting that has erupted as a result of an attempted advance by the Taliban in Helmand province continues. “We are on the sixth consecutive night of attacks and our Surgical Centre for War Victims in Lashkar-Gah is now saturated. We have already added emergency beds and now are only able to admit the most […]

A Taliban military offensive against Afghan security forces has been underway in Helmand province since Sunday 11 October, with heavy clashes reaching the outskirts of the city of Lashkar-Gah. According to local media reports, the Taliban have taken control of a police station in district 4 and various checkpoints on the main road connecting Lashkar-Gah […]

28,000 food packs delivered, 640 working volunteers and 1,740 households helped. Those are the figures for ‘Nobody left behind – Supporting those in need through unprecedented times’, EMERGENCY’s project to tackle the newfound poverty after the pandemic by handing out free food and basic goods. Having sprung up in Milan, Rome and Piacenza, now ‘No […]

‘In our everyday work for almost two years now, we’ve seen with our own eyes the effects of the ‘Security’ legislative decree on thousands of people’s lives. So, the much-awaited amendments to the decree are a big change, and they seem at last to be going in the right direction of respect for human rights, […]

‘The Pact on Migration and Asylum has disappointed our hopes for a sharp change in direction by the European Commission. Migrants’ right are the last thing this document is worried about, and it demeans even further the European Union’s founding values and the international rules on asylum.’ This is what EMERGENCY had to say on […]

The 140 rescued people who were still on board Open Arms have now all been transferred to another ship. They were moved in the course of the afternoon to Allegra, a quarantine ship in the port of Palermo, after 123 of them jumped into the sea in the last two days. This marks the end, […]