Father Mari begins a new mission with the tightening of European migration policy
The NGO Maritime Humanitarian Rescue has reported that this new legislation legitimizes illegal returns and hinders rescue work in the central Mediterranean.
Aita Mari. Photo: EITB Media
The humanitarian shipAita Mari today embarked on its 16th mission , from the port of Castellón, to the central Mediterranean, one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world.
This new humanitarian mission coincides with a particularly tense moment with theentry into force of the New European Treaty on Migration and Asylum , legislation which the rescue and human rights organisation has described as a step backwards.
Maritime Humanitarian Rescue , the organisation responsible for the ship Aita Mari, has denounced that the new European legislation 'instead of offering dignified solutions, institutionalises express returns, systematic detention and expulsion of migratory control to countries that systematically violate human rights'.
According to this organisation, these policies not only strengthen existing practices, but also clearly violate international law. eta. In particular, Libyan patrols, many of them trained and funded by the European Union, intercepted persons at sea, are forced to return to Libya and, in many cases, are abandoned in the desert without water or means of subsistence.
Itsas Salbamendu Humanitarioa
These returns are illegal, but they also involve extreme institutionalized violence.
Father Mari's mission is developing in an increasingly disastrous context. In addition to the new migration treaty, Maritime Humanitarian Rescue recalls that restrictive measures such as the Italian , which severely restricts the operational capacity of humanitarian vessels, are in force.
ITSAS SALBAMENDU HUMANITARIOA
As long as lives are in danger, we will continue to engage in such activities, because every life matters.
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