Currently, the Open Arms is located in the Italian port of Salerno,
preparing to set sail in the coming days on a new mission, Mission 108, in the central Mediterranean.
We remember that in 2023, more than 2,756 people have lost their lives by drowning in the Mediterranean while trying to reach European shores. Without the presence of humanitarian organizations that are at sea, sometimes acting in place of institutions, the human lives lost at the bottom of the sea will be even more.
We continue to denounce the Italian government’s strategy of assigning disembarkation ports significantly more distant than those available, unnecessarily prolonging the suffering of those on board. This constitutes a flagrant deliberate breach of the Law of the Sea and International Conventions, which establish that shipwrecked persons must be disembarked in the nearest safe port.
If saving lives is a crime, there is no better time for you to join our gang.
