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Urgent warning: Increased deaths at sea, NGO vessels detained – European states must stop obstructing civilian search and rescue efforts in the Central Mediterranean
Monday, August 28, 2023
Up to 600 people lost their lives in another avoidable shipwreck off the Greek coast in June 2023. As civil society, we are horrified by the preventable deaths in the Central Mediterranean sea which happen year in, year out. Search and rescue ships are urgently needed to prevent further loss of life on the deadliest […]
40 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SHIP LIFE SUPPORT DISEMBARK IN ORTONA AFTER FOUR DAYS AT SEA
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
RESCUED MAN FROM DARFUR ON BOARD, “I WANTED TO GO BACK TO SUDAN, TO SEE MY FAMILY, BUT THE SITUATION THERE HAD ONLY GOTTEN WORSE. SO I TRIED TO CROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN.” Ortona, 23 August 2023. After four days at sea, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support has completed the disembarkation of the 40 […]
EMERGENCY NGO OPENS CENTRE FOR EMERGENCY AND TRAUMA SURGERY IN KHARTOUM: 77 PATIENTS RECEIVED ALREADY
Thursday, August 17, 2023
At EMERGENCY’s Salam Centre complex in Khartoum, already home to a cardiac surgery hospital, the NGO has opened an emergency and trauma surgery hospital to treat people in a context where few other medical facilities are available because of the war that began in Sudan on 15 April 2023. EMERGENCY, which has been active in […]
76 People Rescued by Life Support Disembark in Naples
Monday, August 14, 2023
14 August 2023, NAPLES: The 76 people rescued in international waters on the night of 11 August by EMERGENCY’s ship Life Support have disembarked in Naples. Among them were seven women and 24 children, including 12 unaccompanied and a seven-month-old baby. “They had departed from the Libyan coast in an unstable wooden boat,” explains Carlo Maisano, Life […]
Afghanistan: Two Years on from August 2021
Friday, August 11, 2023
Amid the changing political landscape, the freeze on international banking, an escalating humanitarian crisis and increased restrictions on women, EMERGENCY remains in Afghanistan and continues to provide free, high-quality care across the country. Since August 2021, EMERGENCY has admitted more than 41,000 people to its four hospitals: two Surgical Centres in Kabul and Lashkar-Gah, and a […]
10 INJURED AND 2 DEAD RECEIVED IN EMERGENCY CLINICS IN THE DISTRICTS OF JALREZ AND GHURBAND, NEAR KABUL
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
After the floods of the last few days in the east of Afghanistan, causing dozens of injuries, deaths and missing people, EMERGENCY’s First Aid Posts in the Ghurband and Jalrez districts have received 10 injured patient, and two already dead on arrival. The posts are located in the provinces of Parwan and Maidan Wardak, among […]
171 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SEARCH AND RESCUE SHIP LIFE SUPPORT LANDED IN TARANTO.
Monday, July 24, 2023
171 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SEARCH AND RESCUE SHIP LIFE SUPPORT LANDED IN TARANTO. AMONG THE RESCUED ARE 20 WOMEN AND 51 CHILDREN, 46 OF WHOM ARE UNACCOMPANIED. MANY REPORT VIOLENCE IN TUNISIA AND LIBYA. Taranto, 24.07.23 – The disembarkation of the 171 people rescued on 20 July by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life […]
184 PEOPLE RESCUED BY LIFE SUPPORT IN FOUR DIFFERENT RESCUE OPERATIONS
Friday, July 21, 2023
The four rescue operations conducted by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support throughout the night of Thursday 20 July were completed at 10:30 am today.184 people were rescued. All the rescues took place in international waters, within the Maltese search and rescue zone. The first boat came from Libya and the other three from […]
Non-Governmental Organisations urge European Commission to put under scrutiny Italian law restricting search and rescue activities at sea.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Brussels, 13 July 2023 – Five leading Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have submitted a complaint to the European Commission (EC) about Italian Law 15/2023 and the practice by Italian authorities of assigning ports distant from the area where the rescue took place, to disembark people from humanitarian search and rescue vessels. The NGOs submitting the complaint […]
EMERGENCY’s New Report: Covid-19 Response in Africa and the COVAX Mechanism
Monday, June 12, 2023
On 12 June 2023, EMERGENCY released a new report in conjunction with the research centres CERGAS and DONDENA, from Bocconi University. The report, Covid-19 Response in Africa and the COVAX Mechanism; Voices from the Field: Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, identifies flaws in local, national and global response systems, contextualised within each of the three countries’ […]
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