The world is talking about COVID-19. We have seen the ways that it disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable, from the people on the frontline of health and social care to the communities with the least access to this care: refugees and displaced people. While we have seen how worrying the...
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COVID-19 is not concerned with lines – of race, of class, of poverty, or those on a map. Its symptomatic and asymptomatic spread threatens us all, and as countries across the globe effectively shut down, for most of us the brief is pretty straightforward. Stay home, wash your hands and...
On January 19 2019, 47 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya by the crew of Sea Watch 3. This is the moment that they were told they would be safe. Photo by Doug Kuntz. Today there are no rescue ships operating in the Mediterranean Sea. The Sea Watch...
The Crippling of the Aquarius The saga of the Aquarius migrant ship culminated in September with the revocation of its Panamanian registration, thought to be due to pressure from the Italian government whose Interior Minister has previously described the vessel as a “taxi service” for migrants. Since that point it...