Libya

Testimonies from Life Support on International Migrants Day

December 18, 2023
Grace Bitner
Mediterranean Sea

For many people, migration means facing violence, abuse, death. In the central Mediterranean alone, over 28,000 people have disappeared since 2014 while attempting the crossing. At least 61 more people were victims of yesterday’s shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the…

Italy Should No Longer Work With The Libyan Coastguard When Rescuing People At Sea.

Saving people at sea should be the responsibility of European countries. Every government should have a search and rescue service that is constant and reliable.

Italy: J. Has a Deathly Gaze. You Can Read in Her Eyes the Dramatic Events She’s Endured

J. is one of the survivors of the shipwreck on 6 November, 30 miles off the Libyan coast.

Libya: EMERGENCY Suspends Gernada Operations

Serious violence has forced EMERGENCY to suspend its operations in Gernada.

Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

"In front of me, in the middle of the sea between Italy and Libya, were hundreds of youngsters. We rescued them one by one."

PRESS RELEASE: EMERGENCY NGO & MOAS partner up to provide rescue and medical care to migrants in the Mediterranean

6th June 2016 A joint operation by EMERGENCY NGO, humanitarian organisation which provides medical care, and Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) is leaving Malta today aboard the Topaz Responder, a search and rescue vessel which will patrol the world’s deadliest migrant crossing: the central Mediterranean. More than 2.000 people have already died in 2016 attempting…

January 15, 2016
David Lloyd Webber
Libya
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Ramadan was a patient at our Surgical Centre for War Victims in Libya, but now he works with us. This is his story.

Testimonies from Life Support on International Migrants Day

Italy Should No Longer Work With The Libyan Coastguard When Rescuing People At Sea.

Italy: J. Has a Deathly Gaze. You Can Read in Her Eyes the Dramatic Events She’s Endured

Libya: EMERGENCY Suspends Gernada Operations

Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

PRESS RELEASE: EMERGENCY NGO & MOAS partner up to provide rescue and medical care to migrants in the Mediterranean

LIBYA: ‘His life is more important than his leg’

ITALY: 200+ Migrants and Refugees land in Sicily, one on his birthday.

LIBYA: Treating the Wounded and Training Doctors

LIBYA: From Patient To Staff Member