⚠️Our solidarity is with the crew and survivors onboard Mediterranea! After 3 rescue operations over the past 2 days, the vessel is currently positioned off Porto Empedocle in Sicily with 92 people who have already survived a shipwreck, including 31 unaccompanied minors.

🚨 We’re Hiring @msfsea.bsky.social Project Coordinator: lead MSF’s SAR operational response, analyse humanitarian needs, and represent MSF with national stakeholders, including civil society, authorities, and local NGOs. 👉🏽Apply here: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/project...

Horror is unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan. People are seemingly trapped in the city, and @msf.org teams 60 km away are receiving malnourished people among those who have managed to escape. Civilians must be urgently protected, and safe escape routes must be provided.

Last weekend, our Seabird aircrew saw two illegal interceptions. People were abducted by Libyan militias, while @frontex.bsky.social ignored NGO's and enabled interceptions. But what exactly happened? ⬇️

@msf.ca was recently ordered, in a letter from the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to leave the country by November 9. No reason has been given to justify our expulsion, and the process remains unclear.

Following recent legislative changes in Greece and the adoption of a hardline deterrence narrative, a sequence of administrative barriers has created an environment where people have no legal way to seek protection and no safe way to survive. 🧵

Yesterday, 40 people including newborn babies drowned in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisia after a shipwreck. This migration route is part of one of the deadliest worldwide and is mainly overseen.

🔴 Another avoidable tragedy has unfolded in the Mediterranean, as a boat carrying people shipwrecked near the coast of Tunisia, claiming the lives of 40 people, including several infants. This is the result of the EU's migration policy. bit.ly/3JdudLO

Why do so many men in the Middle East and North Africa struggle to reach out for #mentalhealth support? Our staff in #Sudan, #Palestine and #Lebanon share what they’re seeing, from stigma to social expectations and what can help change that.

Our #WithHumanity campaign calling on the EU to save lives of people seeking safety or a better life is a finalist at the Anthem Awards! 🤝🙌 You can amplify the call with a vote for #WithHumanity for the Community Voice Award before Oct 30! 🗳️ https://wbby.co/HCAWNP

Many world leaders will get a letter from me today, demanding overdue concrete action to save Palestinian lives. They must increase the number of medical evacuations from Gaza. Patients with life-threatening conditions cannot wait any longer:

For ten years, the #EU has been implementing increasingly repressive policies towards migrants to limit arrivals. A new report by #MSF shows it have made routes longer and more dangerous, leading to the deaths of thousands of people. prez.ly/Kazd

🚨 Today is the Main Action Day! Join us and @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social in today’s events.

Today, activists and migration, human rights and sea rescue organisations, including @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social  gathered in Piazza Navona in Rome, to raise voices and demand to STOP the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya, and to stop violence against people on the move.

Don’t miss out on two powerful events with @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social  as they mark Day 4 of Action.  Today 👇 🕛 12:00  ✊ Symbolic public action by Civilfleet-actors 🕕 18:00 Commemoration - in front of Basilica di S. Croce in Gerusalemme

Join @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social for the third day of action. Tomorrow it will be marked by two events 👇 🗓️ 16 Oct

Join the second day of the "Action Days - STOP MoU Italy-Libya" in Rome @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social  🗓️ Today 🕣 18:00 💬 Debate on Perspectives against the externalization & brutalization of the EU border regime 📍 Esc Social Center, San Lorenzo Be part of the conversation! 🙌

⚠️Armed violence against people on the move and rescue NGOs is escalating alarmingly. There have been 2 attacks since Friday, a total of 4 in the past 6 weeks. ‼️Again, Italy & the EU must stop supporting and financing these actions and ensure accountability for the perpetrators.

As the @ec.europa.eu and @frontex.bsky.social are rolling out the red carpet for Libyan militias in their EU headquarters, we are publishing the first significant data collection on extreme cases of violence committed by Libyan actors in the Mediterranean since 2016. Read: https://shorturl.at/jQMnV

“Italy needs to stop its complicity with the Libyan Coast Guard, who are implicated in the torture, exploitation, and degrading treatment of the people they interdict and bring back to Libya.” @hrw.org

📢MSF is hiring a Deputy Logistics Coordinator to support Logistics Coordinator in Technical and Supply Chain Management. Apply here 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/deputy-logistics-coordinator.html

"The children carry a very heavy burden. They made the journey as young children and arrived in Italy as teenagers, but already feeling like adults." says Federica Curci, MSF psychologist in Agrigento

Our team in Agrigento, runs psycho-educational workshops in support of migrant minors. Through colors, they learn to express and recognize their feelings, and have a safe place to feel like kids again. 🎨

📢Join our team! As a Deputy Logistics Coordinator, you'll support in designing, planning & implementing logistical strategies for SAR operations. 🌊 Apply 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/deputy-logistics-coordinator.html

Since July 2024, the @MSF team in “People on the Move” project has been supporting young migrants in Agrigento, Sicily, with medical care and psychological support. The majority of them arrive to Italy by crossing the deadly route of the Mediterranean, carrying heavy traumas.

🎬Join us today for the screening of the documentary My Maysoon. In search of her sister Maysoon, the director Batoul, travels from Sicily to Tunisia and Libya, confronting graveyards of missing migrants and a labyrinth of ignorance and indifference. 📍Kif Kif, Roma 📆h 19:00

⚫️ 12 years ago, 368 people lost their lives in a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa. Preventable deaths at sea have not stopped. 25,470 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014. We must not forget.

Libyan militias chase people in distress - one person drowned! Yesterday, the so-called Libyan coastguard tried to force people back to Libya and chased them through the sea. When people fell into the water, they left them to die. One person drowned. This is murder!

"In Libya, I spent two months in a building with no windows with other 90 people. Men would come at night and beat them. They allowed other men to take the girls away." This is what a 17- years-old girl from Eritrea shared with us on board MSF rescue boat.

"They hit you on the head or in your intimate parts. I have witnessed people dying." This is what a 24-year-old man from Somalia told us in 2016 while he was detained in Libya.

🚨 Sea-Watch 5 under fire while rescuing 66 people at sea. At night, we were threatened by a Libyan militia vessel and ordered to leave “their waters.” Minutes after everyone was safely on board, a shot was fired. 👉 sea-watch.org/en/libyan-militia-fires-on-rescue-ship-sea-watch-5

"When the war started, everything changed" - An 18-year-old man from Syria said. After his home was struck by a bomb, he fled with his family, only for their next house to be bombed as well. Life as he knew was gone. https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

MSF has signed a joint statement alongside a group of NGOs to denounce the recent attack made on the Ocean Viking, and to demand the immediate suspension of the EU’s cooperation with Libya.

"I left because people in my village wanted to do FGM to my daughter." A woman from Nigeria fled to Libya with her daughter, only to face more horrors, coerced into prostitution, and beaten for refusing. They ended up on a rubber boat. They didn’t choose this journey.

"He beat my belly until I lost the baby" Behind every crossing, there is a story. A 23-year-old woman from Morocco, after moving to Libya in 2009 working as domestic help, was kidnapped and raped. 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

"In Libya I was arrested. In prison they would ask for $500 to stop beating us, but I had no money. Some women were abused and raped." - This is what a 17-year-old girl from Eritrea told us after she crossed the Mediterranean. 🌊 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

Le 5 septembre dernier, notre avion était immobilisé par les autorités italiennes pour des raisons contraires au droit maritime et aux droits fondamentaux. Pour continuer d'agir en mer méditerranée, et pour lutter contre cette décision, nous avons besoin de vous ⤵️ tinyurl.com/5dety2t3

🚨 18 October – Manifestation in Rome 🚨 We refuse to stay silent while Italy renews its bloody deal with Libyan militias. We call on all comrades, refugees, allies & citizens of conscience: join us in Rome to say NO to the Italy–Libya Memorandum! ✊🏾 📍 Piazza dei Santi Apostoli – Rome 📅 18 October

"They beat us and held guns to our heads." In 2014, a 27-year-old man from South Sudan fled the war seeking safety. His journey led him to Libya, where he was detained ⛓️ https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

Video footage and photos in the Italian press appear to show for the first time a militia allied with the Libyan government participating in people smuggling in the Mediterranean Sea.

"They kept hitting and kicking us," recalls a 17-year-old from Bangladesh who suffered violence in Libya. He shared his story with us aboard the MSF search and rescue boat in 2017. https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

Another tragedy in the Mediterranean: 50 people dead. #SafeRoutesNOW!

My colleague Hussein was a dedicated nurse and father. Yesterday, he died of injuries from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Our thoughts are with Hussein’s wife and young children. His killing isn't a tragic accident, it's unacceptable proof that no one is safe from genocide.

“Governments around the world – through political, military, or material support to Israel, or through silence – are complicit in the genocide [in Gaza].” - @chrislockyear.msf.org  Doctors can’t stop genocide, world leaders can.

🎬 Join us today: Together with the Director, we invite you to the screening of 'The Sea Between Us', a powerful documentary that tells the stories of migration across the Mediterranean toward Europe. 🌊 🗓 When: Today, at 20:00 📍 Where: Sparwasser, V. del Pigneto 215, Roma

🎬Join us in Rome, for the screening of the powerful documentary 'The Sea Between Us', followed by a panel discussion.  Don't miss it! 📽️ 🗓 When: September 18th, 20:00 📍 Where: Sparwasser, V. del Pigneto 215, Roma

"I was forced to marry. My husband kept raping me and treating me badly, so I decided to leave. I travelled with my friend whose husband is in Italy, but she drowned." An Ivorian girl was 12, when we met her onboard our rescue boat in 2016. 🖌️https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

"All we had to eat was water mixed with flour and salt." A 13-year-old boy from Somaliland shared his story with us: he left home seeking a better future but was caught, sent to a Libyan detention camp, and sold from one smuggler to another. 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

The Global Sumud Flotilla on its way to Gaza is an act of protest and a show of support for Palestinians enduring annihilation through Israel’s genocide. I’m wishing the flotilla success. At @msf.org, we support this action of solidarity and humanity.

"I left home a year ago to take care of my three younger siblings. I was arrested in Tripoli, then sold and taken to a detention center," shared a 23-year-old woman from Nigeria with @msf.ca team back in 2017. "I am scared. Can you tell me something that will help me?"