On the 6th of February 2026, decentralized CommemorActions took place in over 60 cities across the Mediterranean sea. The gatherings collectively remembered the massacre which took place 12 years ago in Tarajal near Ceuta. Alongside relatives of the dead and missing at the borders, families and friends of victims of state and police violence within Europe joined this growing network of solidarity. The planned implementation of the racist CEAS pact and the brutalized externalization policies threaten to bring even more suffering and death in the near future. This is why we must unite transnationally in the struggle for justice, equal rights, and freedom of movement, placing the testimonies and demands of relatives at the heart of our collective action! Since the beginning of 2026: • 1,671 people arrived in Italy and Malta by sea, many of whom arrived autonomously (UNHCR figures up to February 8). • 244 people were rescued by the civil fleet from 8 boats in distress (CMRCC figure up to February 8). • 781 people were pushed back to Libya after they were intercepted by the EU-supported so-called Libyan Coast Guard (IOM figure up to February 7). • 56 people have been reported dead or missing on the Central Mediterranean Route (IOM figure up to February 7).
While Libyan militias escalate their crimes at sea, shooting at rescue ships and people on the move, the network Refugees in Libya have organised an impressive mobilisation against the EU complicity and its "deal of death." As Italian authorities continue to obstruct sea rescue efforts, several NGOs have launched the Justice Fleet campaign, a collective response of solidarity and resistance. At the same time, as EU governments push to expand systems of detention and deterrence through the new Migration and Asylum Pact, self organised and anti-racist networks have joined forces in a powerful chain of actions. Together, they marked the 10th anniversary of the Summer of Migration, declaring loud and clear, - to complete the headline above: "Freedom of movement is everybody's right!". Their voices rise across borders, defying fear, reclaiming dignity, and demanding justice for all on the move. In 2025: • 59,295 people arrived to Italy and Malta by sea, many of whom arrived autonomously (UNHCR figures up to 1 November) • 12,192 people were rescued by the Civil fleet from almost 230 boats in distress (CMRCC figure up to September 10) • 22,945 people were pushed back to Libya after they were intercepted by the EU-supported so-called Libyan Coast Guard (IOM figure up to 1 November) • 1.044 people have been reported dead or missing on the Central Mediterranean Route (IOM figure up to 1 November)eniam.
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...
Lampedusa is the largest of the Pelagie Islands (20km2) with 6,000 inhabitants, located approximately 60 nautical miles from the Tunisian coast and 110 miles from the Sicilian coast.
