Russian warship Admiral Gorshkov, file photo A Russian warship rescued 68 people from a boat in the Mediterranean Sea late at night. The Russian Defense Ministry said in its statement that the ship Admiral Gorshkov received a call for help from the boat Avalon. A Russian ship and a cargo boat carried out a successful…
Duty to rescue people in distress In a joint statement, refugee agency UNHCR and migration agency IOM, said that the duty to rescue people in distress at sea without delay was a “fundamental” rule of the international maritime law. They underscored that the current approach to Mediterranean Sea crossings – one of the world’s most…
Two ships have been sent to search for the emigrants; Photo: File Rome: A boat carrying migrants has gone missing off Italy’s southernmost island, with two ships searching for it unsuccessfully. According to the World News Agency, the boat carrying the refugees entered the high seas in the Mediterranean 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of…
Since 2014, over 26,000 people have died or gone missing crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Most of these deaths or disappearances, over 20,000, occurred in the Central Mediterranean, considered among the deadliest migration routes in the world. “We are seeing a steep increase in the number of desperate people putting their lives at grave risk,” said…
IOM’s Missing Migrants Project documented 441 deaths during this period, though the true toll is likely to be higher. Investigations continue into several reports of so-called invisible shipwrecks – cases where boats are reported missing but there are no records of survivors or search and rescue (SAR) operations. The fates of more than 300…
