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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21h

10 Oct: The Libyan Coast Guard fired dozens of shots at an empty boat after people were rescued by
@sos-humanity.bsky.social

12 Oct: An unidentified armed boat attacked people fleeing Libya. 1 person is in a coma due to bullet lodged in the skull & at least 2 others are severely injured.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21h

⚠️Armed violence against people on the move and rescue NGOs is escalating alarmingly. There have been 2 attacks since Friday, a total of 4 in the past 6 weeks.

‼️Again, Italy & the EU must stop supporting and financing these actions and ensure accountability for the perpetrators.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 1d

As the @ec.europa.eu and @frontex.bsky.social are rolling out the red carpet for Libyan militias in their EU headquarters, we are publishing the first significant data collection on extreme cases of violence committed by Libyan actors in the Mediterranean since 2016. Read: https://shorturl.at/jQMnV

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 1d

“Italy needs to stop its complicity with the Libyan Coast Guard, who are implicated in the torture, exploitation, and degrading treatment of the people they interdict and bring back to Libya.”
@hrw.org

Italy: End Border Control Pact with Libya

Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on migration cooperation will renew automatically ...

www.hrw.org

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 2d

📢MSF is hiring a Deputy Logistics Coordinator to support Logistics Coordinator in Technical and Supply Chain Management.

Apply here 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/deputy-logistics-coordinator.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 3d

"The children carry a very heavy burden. They made the journey as young children and arrived in Italy as teenagers, but already feeling like adults." says Federica Curci, MSF psychologist in Agrigento

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 4d

Our team in Agrigento, runs psycho-educational workshops in support of migrant minors. Through colors, they learn to express and recognize their feelings, and have a safe place to feel like kids again. 🎨

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 4d

📢Join our team! As a Deputy Logistics Coordinator, you'll support in designing, planning & implementing logistical strategies for SAR operations. 🌊

Apply 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/deputy-logistics-coordinator.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 5d

Since July 2024, the @MSF team in “People on the Move” project has been supporting young migrants in Agrigento, Sicily, with medical care and psychological support. The majority of them arrive to Italy by crossing the deadly route of the Mediterranean, carrying heavy traumas.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 5d

🎬Join us today for the screening of the documentary My Maysoon.

In search of her sister Maysoon, the director Batoul, travels from Sicily to Tunisia and Libya, confronting graveyards of missing migrants and a labyrinth of ignorance and indifference.

📍Kif Kif, Roma
📆h 19:00

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 12d

⚫️ 12 years ago, 368 people lost their lives in a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa.

Preventable deaths at sea have not stopped. 25,470 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014.

We must not forget.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 15d

Libyan militias chase people in distress - one person drowned!

Yesterday, the so-called Libyan coastguard tried to force people back to Libya and chased them through the sea. When people fell into the water, they left them to die. One person drowned. This is murder!

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 15d

"In Libya, I spent two months in a building with no windows with other 90 people. Men would come at night and beat them. They allowed other men to take the girls away." This is what a 17- years-old girl from Eritrea shared with us on board MSF rescue boat.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 18d

"They hit you on the head or in your intimate parts. I have witnessed people dying." This is what a 24-year-old man from Somalia told us in 2016 while he was detained in Libya.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 18d

🚨 Sea-Watch 5 under fire while rescuing 66 people at sea.
At night, we were threatened by a Libyan militia vessel and ordered to leave “their waters.” Minutes after everyone was safely on board, a shot was fired. 👉 sea-watch.org/en/libyan-militia-fires-on-rescue-ship-sea-watch-5

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 19d

"When the war started, everything changed" - An 18-year-old man from Syria said. After his home was struck by a bomb, he fled with his family, only for their next house to be bombed as well. Life as he knew was gone.

https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 19d

MSF has signed a joint statement alongside a group of NGOs to denounce the recent attack made on the Ocean Viking, and to demand the immediate suspension of the EU’s cooperation with Libya.

MSF Signs Joint Letter Calling for Suspension of EU-Libya Cooperation

searchandrescue.msf.org

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 20d

"I left because people in my village wanted to do FGM to my daughter." A woman from Nigeria fled to Libya with her daughter, only to face more horrors, coerced into prostitution, and beaten for refusing. They ended up on a rubber boat. They didn’t choose this journey.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21d

"He beat my belly until I lost the baby"

Behind every crossing, there is a story. A 23-year-old woman from Morocco, after moving to Libya in 2009 working as domestic help, was kidnapped and raped. 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 22d

"In Libya I was arrested. In prison they would ask for $500 to stop beating us, but I had no money. Some women were abused and raped." - This is what a 17-year-old girl from Eritrea told us after she crossed the Mediterranean. 🌊 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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Pilotes Volontaires @pilotesvolontaires.bsky.social · 25d

Le 5 septembre dernier, notre avion était immobilisé par les autorités italiennes pour des raisons contraires au droit maritime et aux droits fondamentaux. Pour continuer d'agir en mer méditerranée, et pour lutter contre cette décision, nous avons besoin de vous ⤵️

tinyurl.com/5dety2t3

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Refugees in Libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 18 October – Manifestation in Rome 🚨

We refuse to stay silent while Italy renews its bloody deal with Libyan militias.

We call on all comrades, refugees, allies & citizens of conscience: join us in Rome to say NO to the Italy–Libya Memorandum! ✊🏾

📍 Piazza dei Santi Apostoli – Rome
📅 18 October

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 25d

"They beat us and held guns to our heads." In 2014, a 27-year-old man from South Sudan fled the war seeking safety. His journey led him to Libya, where he was detained ⛓️ https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 25d

Video footage and photos in the Italian press appear to show for the first time a militia allied with the Libyan government participating in people smuggling in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26d

Videos appear to show people smuggling by state-linked Libyan militia in Mediterranean

Sea rescue NGO says clips and images provide evidence that smugglers ‘are part of Tripoli’s official military apparatus’ Video footage and photos in the Italian press appear to show for the first time a militia allied with the Libyan government participating in people smuggling in the Mediterranean Sea. The clips and photographs, shared with the Guardian, were taken by a journalist for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica who had accompanied volunteers on a rescue boat operated by the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 26d

"They kept hitting and kicking us," recalls a 17-year-old from Bangladesh who suffered violence in Libya. He shared his story with us aboard the MSF search and rescue boat in 2017. https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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