Sos Humanity
SOS Humanity condemns end of search and rescue NGO-funding by German federal government
The managing director of SOS Humanity, Till Rummenhohl, comments on the discontinuation of financial support for civil search and rescue by the German Federal Foreign Office and the media reuse of a false claim made by today’s Foreign Minister Johann…
Rescue ship Humanity 1 detained based on lies by the Italian authorities
On Saturday evening, December 2, 2023, the rescue ship Humanity 1 was detained in Crotone, southern Italy, after disembarking 200 people rescued from distress at sea. The Italian authorities’ justifications for this blockade are based on a series of lies,…
NGOs’ complaint to the European Commission: the new Italian law on migratory flows limits search and rescue activities at sea
The Association for Legal Studies on Immigration (Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione) (ASGI), EMERGENCY, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Oxfam Italy and SOS Humanity are filing a complaint with the European Commission to request an examination of the new Italian…
SOS Humanity takes legal action against distant port policy of Italian authorities
The search and rescue organisations SOS Humanity, Mission Lifeline and Sea-Eye are taking legal action at the Civil Court in Rome against the Italian authorities’ systematic policy of assigning distant ports. The Italian authorities assigned Ravenna in northern Italy to…
SOS Humanity: The new Italian law about search and rescue operations violates international and European law
Today, the Parliament in Italy voted to turn the Italian government’s decree of 2 January into law, despite criticism that these new regulations breach international and European law. SOS Humanity’s Advocacy Officer Mirka Schäfer comments: “Since early January 2023, non-governmental search and rescue has been…
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