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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

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 […]

76 People Rescued by Life Support Disembark in Naples

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

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 […]

171 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SEARCH AND RESCUE SHIP LIFE SUPPORT LANDED IN TARANTO.

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

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.

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

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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