Closing safe and legal options for people to reach Europe pushes them further into people smugglers' networks. In Libya, the detention of migrants and refugees is a thriving enterprise of kidnapping and extortion.
MSF is saving the lives of people trying to cross the central Mediterranean Sea with our own search and rescue vessel, Geo Barents. We also provide assistance to people held in Libyan detention centres and those arriving in Europe.
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Webclip - 3 Things to Know: Impact of Migration Policies
3 things to know - the impact of migration policies
The EU's migration policies are having a direct impact across the Mediterranean Sea, while people are trying to flee dangerous conditions in Libya. Here are three ways that the EU's policies on migration impact on the lives of people trying to seek safety.
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MSF provides psychological first aid to survivors of fatal sea crossing
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Migration: Search and Destroy does not save lives
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Three Mediterranean boat migrants describe their gruelling quests for better lives
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MSF statement re: European Agenda on Migration
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MSF reinforces its search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean
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Testimony from Mediterranean migrant Makone Mare
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MSF and MOAS rescue 369 people on first outing
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SOS MEDITERRANEE
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Seeing families, children, and babies coming off the boats
Research and analysis
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Left to Drown in the Southern European Border: One year of Geo Barents at sea
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Constructing Crisis at Europe’s Border
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The Aquarius Aquarium
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One year after the EU-Turkey deal: migrants and asylum seekers are paying the price with their health
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