In an important decision published on the 13th of June 2024, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe assessed that Italy had failed to adequately implement the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights J.A. and others v. Italy (Appeal No. 21329/18) regarding the detention and conditions inside the Hotspot of Lampedusa and called on...
At the time of publication, Israel's assault on Gaza will be close to entering its seventh month, with a human cost of 30,000 lives at conservative estimates – not including the 416 killed and 4,658 injured since October in the West Bank – with many thousands more lost beneath the rubble of a nearly flattened region that was once home...
After more than three years of (mis)management by the Badia Grande cooperative, on June 1st, 2023, the hotspot of Lampedusa came under the management of the Italian Red Cross (hereafter CRI). This happened within the broader terms (narrative, logistical, and economic) of the declaration of "State of Emergency" for migration made by the Italian...
Sunday morning the bodies of 13 people left Lampedusa, on board the ferry SIREMAR, headed to Porto Empedocle.
During the month of may 2024, in Tunisia forced deportations at the borders with Algeria and Lybia still continued; arrestations of activistes, lawyers and journalists came after the Security Council of May the 6th. Racism keep on being present on member of Parliamet's propositions and public intervantions.
The man on the picture liberated himself when he jumped from a so-called Libyan Coast Guards ship into the sea and escaped an intended pushback to Libya. A few days after, the IUVENTA crew liberated themselves from a seven-year long odyssey of criminalization, after the court finally had to drop all charges. Celebrated as a public holiday in Italy,...
The past 4th May, the local municipality of Lampedusa opened a new playground in Via Roma, dedicating it to an Ivorian baby, born in the island on 31st July 2021. This episode was celebrated as the first birth in the island in the last 50 years.
After 20 days of no arrivals, just in the first week of May, around 1240 people reached the coasts of Lampedusa, with a peak of 17 disembarkments which brought 600 people just on the 5th May. More than half of the people (685) were from countries like Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco, while at least ⅓ of people from...
