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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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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Greece and EU must change approach to migration as scale of people’s suffering revealed
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Constructing Crisis at Europe’s Border
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MSF returns to saving lives at sea in central Mediterranean
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Ongoing human tragedy in Mediterranean following 130 people feared dead
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Libya: One dead and two injured in shooting in Tripoli detention centre
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“What Europe is experiencing today, is not a humanitarian crisis, but a crisis of humanity.”
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Carnage in the Mediterranean is the direct result of European state policies
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“The survivors share the memory of the big wave that threw them into the water”
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Lives on the line as legal appeal lodged to free the Sea-Watch 4
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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