According to the international news agency AFP, The UN considers the situation “intolerable”: “The central Mediterranean continues to be the world’s deadliest migratory sea voyage, with the highest number of fatalities each year,” said the UN body, which considers the situation “intolerable.”
From the IOM they consider necessary “a concrete action of the States to increase search and rescue capabilitiesestablishing clear and safe disembarkation mechanisms and safe and regular migratory routes to reduce hazardous journeys.”
At the beginning of January, international organizations that try to cooperate with the problem of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean denounced the Italian government for lack of will by “preventing assistance to people in danger”.
Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea and criticism of the Italian government
The NGOs pointed out the crossed effects of a decree that forced ships to go “without delay” to an Italian port after each rescueand the already usual assignment of ports very far away, reducing the assistance capabilities.
Criticized by the police station for the Council of Europe Human Rights and by numerous NGOs, the Italian government designed a new regulation in December that regulates rescue mechanisms in the Mediterranean.
The text eliminates sanctions against organizations that carry out shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea and establishes that vessels They will have to notify the authorities. after each rescue carried out.
Source: Ambito
