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warning: graphic / distressing

The Mediterranean Sea

Migrants with lifejackets

provided by volunteers of the Ocean Viking,

a migrant search and rescue ship run

by NGOs SOS Mediterranee

and the International Federation of Red Cross,

sail in a wooden boat as they are rescued

some 26 nautical miles south of the island of Lampedusa.

87 survivors,

including 3 women and 25 minors,

were rescued

Photograph: Jeremias Gonzalez

AP

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Brush fires in California, Russian shelling in Chernihiv,

floods in Pakistan and the Notting Hill Carnival in London:

the most striking images this week

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Fri 2 Sep 2022    22.44 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/sep/02/
the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures

Malta

Migrants in a boat

after 110 people were rescued in Malta’s search and rescue zone

by the Spanish NGO Open Arms

Photograph: Valeria Ferraro

Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Texas mourns and an Indonesian sunrise:

Wednesday’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select

photo highlights from around the world

Selected by Natasha Rees-Bloor

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Wed 25 May 2022    14.36 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2022/may/25/
texas-mourns-and-an-indonesian-sunrise-wednesdays-best-photos

Mediterranean Sea

A group of 17 people, all of them Tunisians,

wait for assistance on board a precarious wooden boat

near the Italian island of Lampedusa.

More than 170 people on board six different wooden dinghies

were assisted by a NGO

before the Italian authorities took them to land.

Photograph: Santi Palacios

AP

Twenty photographs of the week

Simone Biles at the Tokyo Olympic Games,

migrants in the Mediterranean and forest fires

in Athens, California and Siberia:

the most striking images from around the world this week

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Fri 30 Jul 2021    19.56 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/30/
twenty-photographs-of-the-week

Mediterranean Sea

Migrants in the Mediterranean await rescue

by members of the Doctors Without Borders organisation

Photograph: Avra Fialas

MSF/Reuters

Mediterranean migrants and Black Panthers: Tuesday’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

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Tue 15 Jun 2021    12.12 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/jun/15/
royal-ascot-and-black-panthers-tuesdays-best-photos

Mediterranean Sea

Migrants on a rubber dinghy

during a rescue operation off the coast of Libya

Photograph: Reuters

20 photographs of the week

The death of Diego Maradona, migrants rescued in the Mediterranean,

the aftermath of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

and the enduring impact of Covid-19:

the most striking images from around the world

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Sat 28 Nov 2020    06.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/28/
20-photographs-of-the-week

Motril, Spain

North African migrants wait to disembark from a rescue boa

on their arrival at the port of Motril.

Photograph: Carlos Gil Andreu

Getty Images

20 photographs of the week

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Fri 22 May 2020    20.43 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/22/
20-photographs-of-the-week

‘The words uttered again and again

by those landing on the beaches of Lesbos

are “Shefna el mot bi oyouna”:

“We saw death with our own eyes.”’

Photograph: Giles Duley

29 October 2015

Giles Duley's photographs of refugees' journeys – in pictures

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Saturday 3 June 2017    19.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jun/03/
giles-duley-photographs-of-refugees-journeys-in-pictures

Lesbos, Greece

Twins from Syria arrive with their parents

after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey

Photograph: Iakovos Hatzistavrou

AFP/Getty Images

Refugees head north as EU leaders hold emergency talks – in pictures

People continue their journeys

as central and eastern European leaders opposed to mandatory refugee sharing

meet Luxembourg’s foreign minister in Prague

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Mon 21 Sep 2015    17.38 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/sep/21/
refugees-eu-leaders-talks-in-pictures

Refugees from Pakistan land on Kos

after completing a journey in a small dinghy

crossing a three-mile stretch of the Aegean Sea

from Turkey.

Photograph: Dan Kitwood

Getty Images

Refugee crisis: as Kos reaches out,

strain of helping begins to show

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Friday 11 September 2015    05.30 BST

Last modified on Friday 11 September 2015    08.45 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/refugee-crisis-kos-europe

warning: graphic / distressing

This image of Alan's body

washed up on a beach in Turkey

led to an outpouring of concern for Syrian refugees.

Since then, at least 100 more children

have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea.

Photograph: Nilufer Demir

via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Family’s Tragedy Goes Beyond One Boy

By ANNE BARNARD        NYT        DEC. 27, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/
world/middleeast/syria-refugees-alan-aylan-kurdi.html

A couple arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos

after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey.

The latest UN figures,

which show that 218,000 people

made the perilous Mediterranean crossing last month,

confirm fears that the end of the summer

has not stemmed the flow of refugees.

Photograph: Aris Messinis

AFP/Getty Images

The 20 photographs of the week

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Saturday 7 November 2015    11.16 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/nov/07/
the-20-photographs-of-the-week

The coffins of victims of a shipwreck

in which more than 300 Eritreans died

as they tried to escape Libya.

Lampedusa, Italy. Oct. 5, 2013.

Photograph: Giulio Piscitelli

Photographing Europe’s Migrant Crisis, Year After Year

By Finbarr O’Reilly        NYT        Sep. 18, 2015

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/
photographing-europes-migrant-crisis-year-after-year/

podcasts > before 2024

journey        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-
in-mediterraneans-worst-loss-of-life-this-year

a dangerous journey

across the Mediterranean Sea        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/31/
492078336/in-36-hours-more-than-10-000-people-are-rescued-in-the-mediterranean

harrowing journeys to safety        USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/13/
949182773/the-harrowing-journeys-to-safety-of-asylum-seekers-during-a-pandemic

«Le plus grand trafiquant de migrants,

c'est l'Union européenne»

Mediapart    9 June 2021

Warning: graphic / distressing

À l'air libre (117)

«Le plus grand trafiquant de migrants, c'est l'Union européenne»

Video        Mediapart        9 June 2021

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNeA6FeMAmA

Related

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/090621/
le-plus-grand-trafiquant-de-migrants-c-est-l-europe

How Europe Outsources

Migrant Suffering at Sea

NYT    27 December 2018

How Europe Outsources Migrant Suffering at Sea

Video        NYT Opinion        The New York Times        27 December 2018

European countries

are outsourcing their humanitarian responsibilities

to a dubious partner.

Our investigation shows the deadly results.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwtoScnKmJo

on the Mediterranean        USA

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/
1223911518/migrants-mediterranean-sea-europe-rescue

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/13/
949182773/the-harrowing-journeys-to-safety-of-asylum-seekers-during-a-pandemic

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-in-mediterraneans-worst-loss-of-life-this-year

in the Mediterranean sea        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/jun/15/
royal-ascot-and-black-panthers-tuesdays-best-photos

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/14/
world/europe/migrant-rescue-efforts-deadly.html

 in the Mediterranean        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/
disbelief-and-anger-among-greek-shipwreck-victims-relatives-
as-millions-spent-on-titan-rescue-effort

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

in the Mediterranean        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-
in-mediterraneans-worst-loss-of-life-this-year

in the Mediterranean        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/28/
20-photographs-of-the-week - Guardian pictures gallery

in Mediterranean        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/
migrant-death-toll-rises-after-clampdown-on-east-european-borders

in the Strait of Gibraltar

and the Alboran Sea,

the western part

of the Mediterranean Sea        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/
544077408/spain-rescues-nearly-600-people-at-sea-
as-migration-patterns-change

 make the clandestine night-time voyage

across the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/13/
gilestremlett

sea route        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/
migrant-death-toll-rises-
after-clampdown-on-east-european-borders

route        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-in-mediterraneans-
worst-loss-of-life-this-year

on the route from Libya to Europe        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-
in-mediterraneans-worst-loss-of-life-this-year

Central Mediterranean route        FR / USA

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/090621/
le-plus-grand-trafiquant-de-migrants-c-est-l-europe

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/
687002432/more-than-100-migrants-feared-dead-
after-raft-sinks-in-rough-icy-mediterranean-s

 try to cross the Mediterranean sea to Europe        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/
1142418932/tunisians-risking-their-lives-
trying-to-cross-the-mediterranean-to-europe

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/
687002432/more-than-100-migrants-feared-dead-
after-raft-sinks-in-rough-icy-mediterranean-s

sea crossing        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/
687002432/more-than-100-migrants-feared-dead-
after-raft-sinks-in-rough-icy-mediterranean-s

crossing        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/03/
magazine/migrants.html

 in stormy seas        USA

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/
relatives-cutro-italy-shipwreck

off Greece        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/
scores-drown-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece

off Tunisia        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/
boat-carrying-people-europe-sinks-off-tunisia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/26/
refugees-trying-to-reach-italy-die-
after-boat-sinks-off-coast-of-tunisia

Mediterranean route / crossing        FR / UK / USA

2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/
1223911518/migrants-mediterranean-sea-europe-rescue

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/01/
i-was-willing-to-risk-it-all-or-die-
a-week-onboard-a-rescue-vessel-in-the-mediterranean-sea

2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/17/
more-than-60-migrants-presumed-dead-after-boat-sinks-off-libya-
says-un

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/
rights-groups-decry-greek-investigation-
into-migrant-shipwreck-that-left-more-than-500-dead

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/29/
1202560292/migrants-mediterranean-deaths-2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/20/
ten-years-after-tragedy-tiny-lampedusa-at-centre-of-migration-crisis-again

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/
people-feared-dead-boat-sinks-near-lampedusa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/
disbelief-and-anger-among-greek-shipwreck-victims-relatives-
as-millions-spent-on-titan-rescue-effort

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/
the-greek-shipwreck-was-a-horrific-tragedy-
yet-it-didnt-get-the-attention-of-the-titanic-story

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/19/
people-smugglers-migrant-boat-disaster-greece

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2023/jun/15/
just-stop-oil-london-protest-peru-thursdays-best-photos

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/
boat-carrying-people-europe-sinks-off-tunisia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/26/
refugees-trying-to-reach-italy-die-
after-boat-sinks-off-coast-of-tunisia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/27/
italy-shipwreck-more-bodies-pulled-from-sea-calabria

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/27/
italy-shipwreck-calabria-migration

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/
dozens-of-bodies-believed-to-be-refugees-
found-on-beach-in-southern-italy

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/190223/
en-tunisie-la-mort-d-une-fillette-retrouvee-echouee-sur-une-plage-
suscite-l-indifference-generale

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/190223/
en-tunisie-il-faut-depasser-la-question-des-traversees-
pour-penser-l-immigration-africaine

2022

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/sep/02/
the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/may/27/
star-wars-fireworks-and-a-banksy-fridays-best-photos

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2022/may/25/
texas-mourns-and-an-indonesian-sunrise-wednesdays-best-photos

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/160222/
revelations-sur-la-mort-de-migrants-rejetes-la-mer-par-des-gardes-cotes-grecs-
publication-jeudi-17

2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/03/
scores-dead-as-migrant-boat-sinks-off-tunisia

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/jun/15/
royal-ascot-and-black-panthers-tuesdays-best-photos

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/
more-than-2000-migrants-arrive-on-italian-island-lampedusa-in-24-hours

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/apr/30/
more-than-100-lone-children-rescued-trying-to-cross-mediterranean

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/23/
more-than-100-asylum-seekers-feared-dead-after-shipwreck-off-libya

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/
wiretaps-migrant-boats-italy-libya-coastguard-mediterranean

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/060221/
ocean-viking-424-migrants-secourus-en-trois-jours-une-femme-enceinte-evacuee

2020

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/20/
we-give-you-30-minutes-malta-turns-migrant-boat-away-with-directions-to-italy

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/19/
exclusive-12-die-as-malta-uses-private-ships-to-push-migrants-back-to-libya

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/
world/europe/mediterranean-libya-migrants-europe.html

2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/
687002432/more-than-100-migrants-feared-dead-
after-raft-sinks-in-rough-icy-mediterranean-s

2018

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TwtoScnKmJo
video - NYT - 27 December 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/26/
opinion/europe-migrant-crisis-mediterranean-libya.html

https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/documentaires/
international/mare-amarum-
les-migrants-le-photographe-et-l-aquarius - 22 December 2018

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/121118/
zarzis-les-pecheurs-sauveurs-de-migrants-menaces-par-l-italie

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/03/
mediterranean-migrants-drown-three-days-libya-italy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/
the-list-europe-migrant-bodycount

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/100118/
une-centaine-de-migrants-disparus-en-mediterranee

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/06/
576223035/more-than-3-100-migrants-died-crossing-mediterranean-in-2017

2017

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/06/
562335869/italy-probes-deaths-of-26-nigerian-women-at-sea

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/130817/
migrants-en-mer-un-moment-donne-quand-quelqu-un-coule-vous-le-sauvez

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/world/europe/
doctors-without-borders-suspends-migrant-rescue-patrols-off-libyan-coast.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/08/09/
navire-antimigrants-c-star-une-mission-inutile-voire-illegale
_5170650_4355770.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/07/06/
morts-en-mediterranee-comment-le-drame-des-migrants-s-est-concentre-en-italie
_5156897_4355770.html

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/010717/
entre-la-libye-et-l-italie-sauvetages-la-chaine-de-migrants-en-detresse

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/
100000004947863/sent-to-die-in-the-mediterranean.html - Feb. 22, 2017

2016

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/
100000004813974/running-the-mediterraneans-trauma-ward.html - Dec. 2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/23/
506768367/u-n-5-000-migrants-died-in-sea-crossings-in-2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/31/
492078336/in-36-hours-more-than-10-000-people-are-rescued-in-the-mediterranean

https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/portfolios/
l-amere-escale-de-l-aquarius-22-morts-bord - 25 July 2016

2015

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/16/
id-rather-die-at-sea-than-stay-there-migrants-on-crossing-the-med

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/
migrant-shipwreck-child-somalia-italy-mediterranean

More than 14,000 people

have died or gone missing

while trying to cross

the central Mediterranean since 2014.        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/26/
opinion/europe-migrant-crisis-mediterranean-libya.html

Europe’s policies in the Mediterranean        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/26/
opinion/europe-migrant-crisis-mediterranean-libya.html

Frontex        FR

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/090621/
le-plus-grand-trafiquant-de-migrants-c-est-l-europe

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/fil-dactualites/040321/
le-patron-de-frontex-se-defend-devant-les-eurodeputes-
bruxelles-maintient-la-pression

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/210121/
le-garde-frontiere-frontex-en-pleine-tourmente?onglet=full

sea crossing        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/23/
506768367/u-n-5-000-migrants-died-in-sea-crossings-in-2016

on a rubber dinghy        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/28/
20-photographs-of-the-week

dinghy, dinghies        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/30/
twenty-photographs-of-the-week

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
baby-dies-on-rescue-boat-after-mediterranean-shipwreck

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/04/
fear-feuds-albanians-kent-coast-dinghies

dinghy        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/20/
441977330/dozens-of-migrants-feared-dead-in-aegean-sea-boat-accidents

on board a precarious wooden boat        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/30/
twenty-photographs-of-the-week

rubber raft        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/10/
magazine/scenes-from-a-human-flood.html

raft        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/
687002432/more-than-100-migrants-feared-dead
-after-raft-sinks-in-rough-icy-mediterranean-s

trawler        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/
five-refugees-drown-overcrowded-boat-overturns-libyan-coast

boat        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/
scores-drown-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2022/may/25/
texas-mourns-and-an-indonesian-sunrise-wednesdays-
best-photos - Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/
they-were-psychopaths-how-chaos-in-libya-fuels-the-migration-crisis

refugee boat        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/
scores-drown-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece

overcrowded migrant boat        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/18/
horrific-10-people-suffocate-in-overcrowded-migrant-boat-off-libya

overcrowded fishing boat        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

overcrowded vessel        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

overcrowded wooden vessel        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/
relatives-cutro-italy-shipwreck

wooden boat        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/08/
20-photographs-of-the-week

wooden boat        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-
in-mediterraneans-worst-loss-of-life-this-year

fall apart        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/
relatives-cutro-italy-shipwreck

large boat        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/
475013583/500-people-may-have-died-in-latest-boat-sinking-un-refugee-agency-says

smuggling boat        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/15/
432366061/at-least-40-migrants-found-dead-on-boat-in-mediterranean

smuggling ring        Uk

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

overloaded boat        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/
five-refugees-drown-overcrowded-boat-overturns-libyan-coast

on a migrant boat        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/
world/europe/migrants-mediterranean.html

board a boat        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/31/
492078336/in-36-hours-more-than-10-000-people-are-rescued-in-the-mediterranean

ship

vessel        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-
in-greece-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/18/
horrific-10-people-suffocate-in-overcrowded-migrant-boat-off-libya

engine > fail        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

adrift        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/18/
world/europe/greece-migrants.html

run out of fresh water        Uk

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-
on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

Greek coastguard        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

Lifesavers or Smugglers?

How Sea-Watch and Italy

Play Political Games With Migrants

NYT    23 July 2019

Lifesavers or Smugglers?

How Sea-Watch and Italy Play Political Games With Migrants

Video    The Dispatch    NYT    23 July 2019

We went onboard a ship

that rescues migrants in the the Mediterranean

and witnessed a standoff

between the captain and Italian officials,

who view the crew as criminals.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SahtQtJLrK8

rescue

rescue        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/22/
how-rescuing-drowning-migrants-became-a-crime-
iuventa-salvini-italy

rescue boat        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
bodies-of-74-migrants-wash-up-on-libyan-beach

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/22/
20-photographs-of-the-week

rescue ship        USA

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/
1223911518/migrants-mediterranean-sea-europe-rescue

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=SahtQtJLrK8 - NYT - 23 July 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/
world/europe/migrants-stranded-sea-watch.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/
620793878/rescue-ships-holding-more-than-600-migrants-reach-spain

rescue vessel        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/
world/europe/migrants-mediterranean.html

rescue        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/
544077408/spain-rescues-nearly-600-people-at-sea-as-migration-patterns-change

sauvetage        FR

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/111018/
migrants-le-hold-de-la-libye-sur-les-sauvetages-en-mer

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/140617/
bataille-tragique-autour-du-sauvetage-des-migrants-en-mediterranee

secours        FR

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/guzzi/blog/210920/
secours-en-mediterranee-legalite-contre-propagande-0

aid workers            UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/08/
20-photographs-of-the-week

survivor        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/
475013583/500-people-may-have-died-in-latest-boat-sinking-un-refugee-agency-says

bound for Europe        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/31/
492078336/in-36-hours-more-than-10-000-people-are-rescued-in-the-mediterranean

Europe bound migrants        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/10/18/
237120156/desperation-outweighs-dangers-for-europe-bound-migrants

fuel        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/31/
492078336/in-36-hours-more-than-10-000-people-are-rescued-in-the-mediterranean

overturn        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-
in-greece-disaster

capsize        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/
lesbos-boat-capsizes-greece-migrants-kythira

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
bodies-of-74-migrants-wash-up-on-libyan-beach

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
baby-dies-on-rescue-boat-after-mediterranean-shipwreck

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/02/
582631488/90-migrants-reported-dead-after-boat-capsizes-off-libya

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/02/
migrant-boat-capsizing-coast-libya-mediterranean

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/26/
migrant-boat-capsizes-in-mediterranean-italian-coastguard

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/
five-refugees-drown-overcrowded-boat-overturns-libyan-coast

capsize        USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-in-mediterraneans-
worst-loss-of-life-this-year

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/05/
617061452/more-than-100-migrants-feared-dead-in-capsizing-off-tunisia

capsized vessel        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/23/
more-than-100-asylum-seekers-feared-dead-after-shipwreck-off-libya

 in capsized dinghy        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
baby-dies-on-rescue-boat-after-mediterranean-shipwreck

sink        UK / USA

2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/17/
more-than-60-migrants-presumed-dead-after-boat-sinks-off-libya-says-un

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/
scores-drown-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/26/
refugees-trying-to-reach-italy-die-
after-boat-sinks-off-coast-of-tunisia

2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/03/
scores-dead-as-migrant-boat-sinks-off-tunisia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/18/
migrant-boat-sinks-off-tunisia-mediterranean

2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-in-mediterraneans-worst-loss-of-life-this-year

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/
687002432/more-than-100-migrants-feared-dead-after-raft-sinks-in-rough-icy-mediterranean-s

2016

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/28/
italian-navy-recovers-45-bodies-after-refugee-boat-sinks

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/
475013583/500-people-may-have-died-in-latest-boat-sinking-un-refugee-agency-says

2015

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/14/
babies-and-children-among-34-dead-in-aegean-migrant-boat-sinking

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/20/
441977330/dozens-of-migrants-feared-dead-in-aegean-sea-boat-accidents

sinking        FR

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/07/25/
libye-plus-de-100-migrants-portes-disparus-apres-un-naufrage
_5493453_3210.html

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/220719/
la-tunisie-nouveau-cimetiere-des-migrants-morts-en-mer

sinking        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/
475013583/500-people-may-have-died-in-latest-boat-sinking-un-refugee-agency-says

drown        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/
scores-drown-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/22/
how-rescuing-drowning-migrants-became-a-crime-iuventa-salvini-italy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/03/
mediterranean-migrants-drown-three-days-libya-italy

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/14/
babies-and-children-among-34-dead-in-aegean-migrant-boat-sinking

drown        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/26/
opinion/europe-migrant-crisis-mediterranean-libya.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/
world/africa/migrants-drown-yemen.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/23/
506768367/u-n-5-000-migrants-died-in-sea-crossings-in-2016

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/04/
437597010/for-family-of-drowned-syrian-boy-there-was-no-other-hope-
uncle-says

International Organization for Migration        USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/
1188527921/adrift-for-3-months-a-man-and-his-dog-lived-on-raw-fish-
until-rescued-by-fisherm

International Organization

for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project        UK

26 february 2023

According to the International Organization

for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project,

20,333 people have died or gone missing

in the central Mediterranean since 2014.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/
dozens-of-bodies-believed-to-be-refugees-found-on-beach-
in-southern-italy

shipwreck        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/
relatives-cutro-italy-shipwreck

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/
rights-groups-decry-greek-investigation-
into-migrant-shipwreck-that-left-more-than-500-dead

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/
disbelief-and-anger-among-greek-shipwreck-victims-relatives-
as-millions-spent-on-titan-rescue-effort

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/
the-greek-shipwreck-was-a-horrific-tragedy-
yet-it-didnt-get-the-attention-of-the-titanic-story

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/20/
the-guardian-view-on-danger-at-sea-looking-out-for-all-those-in-peril

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/19/
people-smugglers-migrant-boat-disaster-greece

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
we-just-want-to-know-if-he-is-alive-or-dead-
migrants-desperate-for-news-of-relatives-
in-greece-shipwreck-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2023/jun/15/
just-stop-oil-london-protest-peru-thursdays-best-photos

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greek-shipwreck-highlights-divided-libyas-inability-to-stem-flow-of-refugees

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-shipwreck-disaster-exposes-europes-deadly-failure

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/jun/15/
at-least-79-people-dead-and-hundreds-feared-missing-
as-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece-video

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/27/
italy-shipwreck-calabria-migration

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
bodies-of-74-migrants-wash-up-on-libyan-beach

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
baby-dies-on-rescue-boat-after-mediterranean-shipwreck

shipwreck        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/06/27/
1184484364/they-set-sail-with-dreams-and-met-disaster-
stories-from-the-ill-fated-migrant-sh

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/africa/
migrants-deaths-mediterranean.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/29/
479925444/more-than-700-migrants-feared-dead-
in-three-separate-mediterranean-shipwrecks

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/
world/europe/migrants-europe-lampedusa-sinking.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/10/09/
230794848/after-boat-tragedy-calls-for-a-unified-european-policy

shipwrecked migrant        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/
climate/climate-refugees.html

migrant boat tragedies        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/19/
people-smugglers-migrant-boat-disaster-greece

die        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/
baby-dies-on-rescue-boat-after-mediterranean-shipwreck

travel in the hold        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

hold        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/15/
432366061/at-least-40-migrants-found-dead-on-boat-in-mediterranean

cross

stranded at sea        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/
world/europe/migrants-stranded-sea-watch.html

Ben Jennings

on the EU-Turkey migration deal – cartoon

G

Sunday 3 April 2016    21.18 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/apr/03
/ben-jennings-eu-turkey-migration-deal-cartoon

exodus        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2018/dec/17/
my-heart-is-split-capturing-the-essence-of-exodus-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/great-syrian-
refugee-crisis-exodus-epic-inconceivable-witness-lebos-islamic-state

exodus        USA

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/12/
tunisia-finished-smugglers-profit-downturn-drives-european-exodus

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/30/
503877850/photos-mass-exodus-from-aleppos-rebel-stronghold-
as-regime-forces-close-in 

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/27/
475723019/she-told-her-husband-she-didnt-want-him-to-leave-for-europe

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/world/middleeast/
exodus-of-syrians-highlights-political-failure-of-the-west.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/world/middleeast/
number-of-syrian-refugees-hits-1-million-un-says.html

EU-Turkey migration deal        UK        2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/
opinion/refugees-shouldnt-be-bargaining-chips.html

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/apr/03/
ben-jennings-eu-turkey-migration-deal-cartoon

get to Europe

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/31/
492078336/in-36-hours-more-than-10-000-people-are-rescued-in-the-mediterranean

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/30/
491930852/1-day-40-boats-thousands-of-people-rescued-trying-to-get-to-europe

Lampedusa, Italy

A man cries as he hugs a crew member

after disembarking from the Open Arms rescue ship

on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.

An Italian prosecutor ordered the seizure of the rescue ship

and the immediate evacuation of more than 80 migrants still aboard,

capping a drama that saw 15 people jump overboard

in a desperate bid to escape deteriorating conditions on the vessel.

Photograph: Salvatore Cavalli/AP

The 20 photographs of the week

G

Sat 24 Aug 2019    08.19 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/aug/24/
the-20-photographs-of-the-week

Lampedusa, Italy        FR / UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/
people-feared-dead-boat-sinks-near-lampedusa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/aug/11/
lampedusas-refugee-crisis-in-pictures
- Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/aug/24/
the-20-photographs-of-the-week
- Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/jul/09/
saving-lives-facing-jail-sea-captain-carola-rackete-taking-on-italy-migration-laws-
podcast - Guardian podcast

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/26/
ngo-boat-carrying-migrants-defies-matteo-salvini-veto-lampedusa-italy

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/290619/
sea-watch-les-40-migrants-debarques-lampedusa-
la-capitaine-carola-rackete-arretee

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/11/
pietro-bartolo-lampedusa-doctor-migrant-deaths-mediterranean-slaughter-innocents

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/18/
hbo-it-will-be-chaos-migration-lampedusa-italy-refugee-crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/01/
migrants-more-profitable-than-drugs-how-mafia-infiltrated-italy-asylum-system

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/
italy-pm-matteo-renzi-migrant-shipwreck-crisis-srebrenica-massacre

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/20/
lampedusa-refugee-fleeing-libya-boats-italy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/22/
lampedusa-boat-tragedy-migrants-africa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/
lampedusa-island-of-hope

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/09/
lampedusa-shipwreck-italy-state-funeral-migrants

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/
lampedusa-boat-sinking-no-accident-eu-migrants

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/06/
italy-north-africa-refugees-lampedusa

Lesbos, Greece        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/03/
giles-duley-photographs-syrian-refugees-lesbos

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jun/03/
giles-duley-photographs-of-refugees-journeys-in-pictures

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/16/
474522382/pope-francis-meets-migrants-in-lesbos-
returns-to-rome-with-12-on-his-plane

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/apr/16/
pope-francis-europe-visits-lesbos-in-pictures

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/16/
474484258/do-not-lose-hope-pope-france-visits-migrants-in-greeces-lesbos

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/15/
474240695/for-these-greek-grandmas-helping-migrants-brings-back-their-own-past

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/15/
474240695/for-these-greek-grandmas-
helping-migrants-brings-back-their-own-past

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/sep/21/
refugees-eu-leaders-talks-in-pictures

Kos, Greece        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/
refugee-crisis-kos-europe

U.N.'s International Organization for Migration

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/
745584178/150-migrants-feared-dead-in-mediterraneans-
worst-loss-of-life-this-year

genocide, war,

weapons, arms sales,

espionage, torture

conflicts, wars, climate, poverty >

asylum seekers, displaced people,

migrants, refugees

worldwide

immigration > UK

immigration > USA

transport > ship, boat

transport > ship, boat > sinking

democracy, human rights, migration, politics,

society, religion, health, climate, resources >

world > regions, countries

Related

Médecins sans frontières / Doctors Without Borders

https://www.msf.org/