Sea rescue: torture, human trafficking, sexual violence – help group provides EU “complicity” | EUROtoday

On the event of ten years of sea rescue within the Mediterranean, the non -governmental group SOS Humanity denounces severe human rights violations to migrants. In a report from the help group printed on Monday, affected torture, human trafficking and sexual violence describe by the Libyan and Tunisian coast guard that they might have skilled on their escape. The EU has a “complicity” on these deeds as a result of it more and more outsourced the border controls on the EU exterior borders, SOS Humanity criticized.

For the present report “Limits of (UN) Humanity”, the help group collected eyewitness reviews from 64 individuals, which had been saved by the ship “Humanity 1” between October 2022 and August 2024 within the Mediterranean. These had damaged as much as Europe both from Libya or Tunisia. In Libya, nearly all survivors had been arbitrarily imprisoned. They reported an absence of medical care, starvation, discrimination and mass executions. Others informed about sexualized violence and human trafficking. “They sell people like bread,” the eyewitness Darius is quoted.

On the central Mediterranean, violent returns from the Libyan and Tunisian coast guard occurred repeatedly. In any case, navigable boats had been intentionally delivered to caps and the individuals had been left to drown.

However, SOS Humanity additionally criticized the EU, which, with a “policy of externalization”, had more and more outsourced its duty for refugee safety and border controls to nations corresponding to Tunisia and Libya. The work of organs of coastal safety of each nations is just like “organized criminal networks”: “Often they have close connections to exactly the smugglers and militias that the EU and its Member States supposedly want to combat,” criticized SOS Humanity.

2333 migrants disappeared or died within the Mediterranean in accordance with NGO 2024

In view of the eyewitness reviews, the help group referred to as on the EU to finish cooperation with Tunisia and Libya. Instead, a “European -financed and coordinated sea rescue program is needed that brings humanity back to the outside border and protects life”.

The United Nations described the migration route over the Mediterranean as probably the most deadly on the earth. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 2333 migrants within the Mediterranean had disappeared or killed final 12 months.