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About the killing of 3 young sisters

At the beginning of September, a transnational chain of actions will begin to commemorate the 2015 Summer of Migration. This anniversary not only serves as a moment to reflect on our fundamental critique of the deadly European border regime, but also reaffirms our ongoing struggle for freedom of movement. Today, we live together in a society of the...

Shortly after midday on Wednesday 13th August, 2025, 61 survivors from a shipwreck - whose circumstances remain unclear in many respects - arrived and disembarked at the Favarolo pier in Lampedusa, Italy. Twenty-three bodies were recovered from the sea, including 13 men, 7women and 3 minors, while an unknown number of people remain missing. During...

On 11 March 2025, the EU Commission presented its new proposal for the Return Regulation. Deportation regulations are set to be significantly tightened, with renewed discussions around the establishment of so-called 'return hubs'. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the Commission, is proposing that these detention centres for deportees should also...

The so-called "Miskar case", the extraordinary rescue of 32 people from a gas platform in the overlapping Tunisian and Maltese Search and Rescue (SAR) zones to Lampedusa in March 2025, contains a deeper meaning for us in these terrible times: never give up even in desperate situations. Who could imagine that the tenacity of the people on the move,...

Lampedusa, as the transit point of many people on the move, is an important place in the fight against borders. We want to share some insights on what we could see while living on the island, by creating links to the other side of the sea. How is the situation in Tunisia and Libya affecting the arrivals in Lampedusa? How...

On March 18, 2025, yet another shipwreck occurred just 15 nautical miles off the coast of Lampedusa. 10 people were rescued, 7 bodies were recovered, and 39 people are still missing. They departed from Sfax, Tunisia on the Night of March 16.[1]

CommemorActions took place on February 6 across dozens of cities in Europe and North and West Africa. Relatives of the disappeared participated in many meetings and demonstrations to commemorate their missing loved ones and to condemn the deadly EU border regime. For more than thirty years, the direct or indirect violence of border regimes has...

Our report, the result of a joint monitoring by ASGI and Maldusa, exposes the contours of a system that confines more than it welcomes, selects more than it protects. A system the Italian government has also sought to export to Albania, further worsening existing criticalities. The hotspot of Porto Empedocle, through its dynamics of detention and...