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Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags look on as the Ship to Gaza boat 'Handala' arrives at the port of Malmö, Sweden, May 8, 2024

Middle East / 29 July 2025

Former president of Amazon Labour Union Chris Smalls beaten by Israeli soldiers

29 July 2025

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike

Human Rights / 18 July 2025

Activists rescue over 40 refugees in Malta's Mediterranean waters

18 July 2025

Middle East / 17 June 2025

Egypt's secret police abduct and ‘brutally beat’ three Global March to Gaza's organisers

17 June 2025

People in a crowded wooden boat sail to the port in La Resti

Migration / 17 June 2025

Over 1,800 people die trying to reach Spain from Africa in first five months of 2025

17 June 2025

Upton Rugby Pitch [Pic: Bob Embleton / Creative Commons]

Men's Rugby Union / 11 June 2025

XR to protest against the RFU's ‘sports-washing’ of ‘floody insurers like Allianz’

11 June 2025

The crowd at Manchester Punk Festival 2024

Culture / 11 April 2025

Punk or not, don't miss this

11 April 2025

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others try to get do

World / 17 March 2025

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

17 March 2025

SETTING AN EXAMPLE: Watford’s and Norwich City players tak

Features / 13 March 2025

Make anti-racism cool again

13 March 2025

Ben Cowles previews his interview with Stand Up to Racism’s SABBY DHALU for the Morning Star’s new Youtube channel

World / 29 January 2025

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

29 January 2025

World / 22 January 2025

Refugees who stopped 108 people from being pushed back to Libya lose latest appeal against criminal charges

22 January 2025

In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade

World / 20 November 2024

Anti-landmine organisation slams US government's decision to allow use by Ukraine

20 November 2024

Israeli soldiers stand near trucks carrying humanitarian aid

World / 21 October 2024

Israel continues to block aid into Gaza and is killing people fleeing in the north, UN officials warn

21 October 2024

Men's Football / 17 October 2024

Spurs and West Ham fans to unite against clubs' ‘attack on concessions’

17 October 2024

Labour MP Nadia Whittome (second-left) addresses the Labour

Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024

Trying to ‘out Tory the Tories’ on immigration will only embolden the far-right, Whittome tells fringe meeting

23 September 2024

Police officers fire tear gas canisters during a protest ove

World / 27 June 2024

Kenyan cops must stop misusing crowd-control weapons on protesters, human rights campaigners demand

27 June 2024

World / 27 June 2024

Civil court in Italy rules the detention of a refugee rescue ship in March was unlawful

27 June 2024

A screen grab of a viral video showing uncontacted Hongana M

World / 26 June 2024

German chemical giant pulls out of major nickel project in Indonesia following pressure from human rights campaigners

26 June 2024

Palestinian children sit at the edge of a crater after an Is

World / 21 June 2024

Governments, arms companies and banks urged to end weapon sales to Israel

21 June 2024

‘By sending weapons, parts, components and ammunition to Israeli forces,’ the above risk being ‘complicit in serious violations of international human rights laws,’ UN experts warn

General View of a Levi's store in London

World / 21 June 2024

Workers at a Levi's supplier factory in Turkey subjected to ‘violence, mass sackings and blacklisting’

21 June 2024

Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at

World / 24 May 2024

World urged to protect civilians in Sudan's Darfur region as RSF surrounds city

24 May 2024

Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, Sudanese refugees lack basic necessities, and have been subjected to attacks by armed militia, according to the Alliance of Forces for Radical Change

World / 22 May 2024

EU-funded migrant camps in Serbia are sites of severe human rights violations, study finds

22 May 2024

Four of nine Egyptians, who were on trial for migrant smuggl

World / 21 May 2024

Greek judge acquits nine survivors accused of causing the Pylos shipwreck

21 May 2024

France's President Emmanuel Macron (2nd right) chairs a secu

World / 21 May 2024

Vanuatu calls on France to engage peacefully with New Caledonia independence leaders

21 May 2024

Cyprus' interior minister Konstantinos Ioannou (second right

World / 17 May 2024

Refugee rescuers save over 20 children in the central Mediterranean

17 May 2024

EU states call for Syria to be reclassified as a safe country

Two Baka men from a community who were evicted to make way f

World / 18 April 2024

Unesco accused of complicity in the illegal eviction and abuse of Indigenous people around the world

18 April 2024

A man walks by the fence at the Pournara migrant reception c

World / 17 April 2024

Refugees trapped between hostile Cypriot coastguard and the sea ‘fear they will die of hunger’

17 April 2024

World / 13 March 2024

Three refugee rescue organisations to take legal action against Italy for ‘unlawfully’ detaining their rescue ships

13 March 2024

The Iuventa rescue ship rots in a shipyard in Trapani, Italy

World / 4 March 2024

Judge to announce decision on refugee rescuers' preliminary trial in April

4 March 2024

Two of the four Iuventa defendants Dariush Beigui (back row,

World / 28 February 2024

Italian prosecutors ask judge to drop the charges against the Iuventa refugee rescuers

28 February 2024

The Geo Barents crew rescues 81 people in the central Medite

World / 12 November 2023

Activists save close to 300 people from unseaworthy boats in the central Mediterranean

12 November 2023

Opinion / 23 October 2023

What Mbonambi allegedly said was not racist

23 October 2023

BEN COWLES, who is covering the sports desk this week while Bella Katz is on holiday, explains why he won't refer to ‘white c**t’ as a ‘racist’ slur

Palestinians wounded in Israeli airstrikes are brought to a

World / 15 October 2023

World Health Organisation condemns Israel's evacuation orders to hospitals in northern Gaza

15 October 2023

Charles Windsor during his visit to the Global Underwater Hu

Britain / 10 October 2023

‘The monarchy is a fundamentally racist institution,’ TWT hears

10 October 2023

From left to right: Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East

Britain / 9 October 2023

Activists and trade unionists must resist the cops inside our heads, TWT hears

9 October 2023

In this image taken from video, refugees from the first grou

World / 24 September 2023

Fears for safety of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians grows as first refugees reach Armenia

24 September 2023

Rescuers from the Humanity 1 approach an overcrowded inflata

World / 11 August 2023

Activists save hundreds of lives during deadly week for refugees in the Mediterranean

11 August 2023

World / 25 July 2023

ECJ to assess legitimacy of Italian and EU laws that have been used to criminalise asylum seekers and activists

25 July 2023

Two refugee boats appear as small dots on the horizon as the

World / 20 July 2023

Italian coastguards kept over 400 people waiting for hours for help, rescue group says

20 July 2023

Tigs Louis-Puttick, founder of the migrant rights organisati

Britain / 19 July 2023

Activist arrested outside Home Office while protesting peacefully against Illegal Migration Bill

19 July 2023

‘This incident demonstrates not only how far refugee rights have been eroded in the UK but also how the right to protest is under attack,’ Reclaim The Sea founder Tigs Louis-Puttick says

Shipibo people protest in the Amazonian town of Contamana a

World / 14 June 2023

Indigenous peoples from Brazil and Peru join forces in fight against Peruvian Bill to strip ‘uncontacted’ people of their land

14 June 2023

World / 3 May 2023

Croatian police officers regularly pushing refugees and asylum seekers across Bosnia border, HRW warns

3 May 2023

World / 2 May 2023

NGO ship saves 336 people in the Mediterranean

2 May 2023

In this screen grab taken from video, Sudanese and foreigner

World / 2 May 2023

The healthcare system in a western Sudanese city has totally collapsed, doctors warn

2 May 2023

Meanwhile, thousands try to flee the country as fighting and looting rages on

A flag flies as Public Service Alliance of Canada members wa

World / 2 May 2023

Canadian union wins pay rise and better conditions for 120,000 public servants

2 May 2023

World / 17 April 2023

International Day of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Struggle marked with call for end to the persecution

17 April 2023

Refugees on a boat crossing the Mediterranean sea, heading f

World / 15 February 2023

At least 73 reported missing, presumed dead following shipwreck off Libya

15 February 2023

Geo Barents in Stavanger Harbour, Norway

World / 29 January 2023

Rescue ship disembarks over 230 people in Italy following Mediterranean rescues

29 January 2023

Supporters of the 24 aid workers and volunteers of 24 aid wo

World / 10 January 2023

Greek court to rule on ‘farcical’ charges against refugee rescuers this week

10 January 2023

World / 16 December 2022

Dozens of refugees forced back across Lithuanian and Latvian borders with Belarus, MSF warns

16 December 2022

The international humanitarian organisation calls on the authorities to put an end to the hostile policy

The crew of the Humanity 1 perform a rescue in the central M

World / 6 December 2022

Refugee rescuers harassed by Libyan vessels while saving lives in the Mediterranean

6 December 2022

Sport / 14 November 2022

Beckham given ultimatum: drop deal with Qatar or watch as £10,000 is shredded

14 November 2022

Comedian Joe Lycett says he will donate £10k to LGBT+ football charities if Beckham quits Qatar, but will drop it all in a blender if he doesn't

One of the survivors aboard the Humanity 1 looks out to sea

World / 8 November 2022

Italy's far-right government causing further harm to traumatised people trapped on rescue ships

8 November 2022

Human Rights Watch joins calls by Amnesty International, the UNHCR and many more, for the 250 people aboard the Humanity 1 and Geo Barents to be brought ashore

Egypt's leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah spe

World / 2 November 2022

Nobel Prize laureates call on Cop27 attendees ‘not to forget the thousands of political prisoners’ in Egypt's jails

2 November 2022

In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard, a small re

World / 2 October 2022

Nord Stream's climate-wrecking underwater leaks finally stopped

2 October 2022

World / 18 September 2022

Rescue ship running out of food, water and medical supplies for 398 refugees

18 September 2022

European authorities ignore crew's 16 calls for a port to disembark the rescued

World / 18 September 2022

Over 32,000 take part in Austrian Trade Union Federation march demanding government act on rising cost-of-living

18 September 2022

Alan Kurdi, a toddler, smiling in a playground

World / 2 September 2022

European borders as deadly as ever, activists warn on 7th anniversary of Alan Kurdi's death

2 September 2022

World / 31 August 2022

Malta told to coordinate rescue of 60 to 80 people stranded within its search-and-rescue area

31 August 2022

Men's Football / 25 August 2022

FA ‘lagging behind’ calls for better migrant workers' rights

25 August 2022

Amnesty levels accusation at England's governing body and praises Welsh FA for highlighting issue

Construction workers at Lusail Stadium, Qatar, in 2019

Men's Football / 22 August 2022

Qatar arrests and deports unpaid migrant workers who protested against their mistreatment

22 August 2022

World's largest trade union federation calls for an end to this latest abuse of workers as World Cup draws close

An image shared with Alarm Phone showing three of the roughl

World / 14 August 2022

Greece and Turkey urged to rescue Syrian refugees trapped on river island for over a week

14 August 2022

Women hold a sign demanding 'bread, work, and freedom' at th

World / 14 August 2022

Women demand ‘bread, freedom and education’ at protest against Taliban in Kabul

14 August 2022

World / 24 May 2022

‘Europe will always remain an asylum destination,’ EU Commission vice president claims at Davos

24 May 2022

Men's Football / 15 May 2022

Liverpool fans upset monarchists by booing William Windsor and song praising his grandmother

15 May 2022

World / 13 May 2022

Over 500 refugees rescued in the central Mediterranean this week still without dry land

13 May 2022

Israeli police attack mourners as they carry the casket of s

World / 13 May 2022

Israeli riot police attack Palestinian mourners as they carry Shireen Abu Akleh's casket to her funeral

13 May 2022

World / 11 May 2022

Israeli forces blamed for shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

11 May 2022

‘Yet again journalists, wearing press vests, clearly identified were targeted by Israeli snipers,’ International Federation of Journalists says

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a meeting of the

World / 27 April 2022

Europe urged to free itself from climate-wrecking fossil fuel industry after Russia cuts off Poland and Bulgaria's gas

27 April 2022

Rescuers from the Ocean Viking approach a deflating rubber b

World / 24 April 2022

Activist-rescuers save the lives of 171 refugees

24 April 2022

Extinction Rebellion NYC activists blockade the entrance to

World / 22 April 2022

Extinction Rebellion NYC mark Earth Day by blockading New York Times, WSJ and USA Today printing plant

22 April 2022

A body floats in the central Mediterranean following a shipw

World / 22 April 2022

NGOs mark year since 130 refugees died in Mediterranean shipwreck

22 April 2022

Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of

World / 22 April 2022

Fighting in eastern Ukraine may lead to ‘senseless repeat’ of Mariupol bloodshed, refugee charity warns

22 April 2022

Norwegian Refugee Council calls for humanitarian access to all communities across Ukraine as UN human rights chief warns international humanitarian laws have been ‘tossed aside’

World / 21 April 2022

‘No end in sight’ to the illegal practice of refugee pushbacks in Greece, report warns

21 April 2022

The 34 people (with their faces blacked out) stranded on an

World / 1 April 2022

Activists warn Greece has still not acted on ECHR order to rescue 34 refugees trapped on Evros River island for three days

1 April 2022

People hold posters of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashog

World / 1 April 2022

Turkey recommends trail into Khashoggi's killers moves to Saudi Arabia

1 April 2022

‘Handing the case over to Saudi Arabia would be a serious blow to any remaining chance of criminal justice for Jamal Khashoggi’s killers,’ Reporters Without Borders says

A police officer talks to refugees fleeing the conflict from

World / 28 February 2022

Arab and Middle Eastern journalists call on Western media outlets to be mindful of racial bias

28 February 2022

Refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Ukraine arrive to

World / 27 February 2022

Refugees in Libya highlight injustice of EU opening up borders to white people but not them

27 February 2022

A CommemorAction demonstration in Malta to remember dead and

World / 6 February 2022

‘Commemoractions’ held across the world to remember those who die crossing borders

6 February 2022

Vassilis Palaiokostas and, in the background, Athens' Koryda

Book Review / 28 January 2022

The curious adventures of ‘Robin Hoodkostas’

28 January 2022

World / 13 January 2022

Greek police capture 25 Afghan refugees and set them adrift in the Aegean Sea

13 January 2022

World / 13 January 2022

Catalonian politicians call for probe into allegations Spanish spooks were behind 2017 terrorist attacks

13 January 2022

Former police commissioner says CNI orchestrated the attacks in order to scare region away from voting for independence

World / 4 January 2022

EU maritime authorities and Shell accused of complicity in Mediterranean refugee ‘pullback’

4 January 2022

Sea-Eye 4 crew members rescue people from a wooden boat in t

Features / 23 December 2021

Voices from the front line of the refugee crisis

23 December 2021

BEN COWLES talks to some of those who are battling to save lives on the borders of ‘Fortress Europe’

South Sudanese refugee turned activist Yambio David Oliver

World / 16 December 2021

Britain and EU accountable for human rights abuses committed against people at their borders, refugees trapped in Libya say

16 December 2021

Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City

World / 9 December 2021

Israeli strikes on Gaza killed up to 10 times as many civilians as eight-year IDF bombing campaign in Syria, new research finds

9 December 2021

Richard Bensinger (left) who is advising unionisation effort

World / 8 December 2021

Union claims victory after Starbucks prevented from halting collective bargaining vote

8 December 2021

World / 25 November 2021

European authorities refuse to rescue over 400 refugees in Malta's Mediterranean rescue zone

25 November 2021

Sport / 6 October 2021

Gary Neville tears into Tories’ ‘brutal’ and ‘divisive’ ideology

6 October 2021

People intercepted by the Libyan Coastguard while trying to

World / 4 October 2021

Refugees ‘systematically subjected to a litany of abuses’ from the moment they enter Libya, UN warns

4 October 2021

Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fl

World / 9 August 2021

Don't stop sending migrants back to Afghanistan, six European countries tell EU Commission

9 August 2021

A man stands by the fence at the newly built refugee camp in

World / 5 August 2021

International human rights laws ignored at Europe's edges

5 August 2021

Migrants used as political pawns in battle between the EU, Lithuania and Belarus, while 800 refugees in the Mediterranean are still not allowed to come ashore

An aircraft drops water during a wildfire near Olympia town,

World / 5 August 2021

Extreme temperatures becoming more frequent across East Asia, Greenpeace warns, as athletes struggle with the Tokyo heat

5 August 2021

Meanwhile, wildfires in Greece threaten the birthplace of the Olympics

The Zapatista's ship, La Montaña, which brough seven of the

World / 5 August 2021

Zapatista ‘invasion’ to mark 500th anniversary of the conquest of Mexico in Madrid

5 August 2021

World / 4 August 2021

Italy must drop charges against refugee rescuers, Amnesty demands

4 August 2021

US Congresswoman Cori Bush speaks to crowds that attended a

World / 4 August 2021

Activists force US government to extend ban on tenant evictions

4 August 2021

Congresswoman Cori Bush praised for spending five-days campaigning on the steps of Capitol Hill

Blizzard Entertainment employees and supporters protest for

World / 4 August 2021

Blizzard Entertainment boss steps down as workers continue fight against sexual harassment in the workplace

4 August 2021

A Maltese helicopter evacuates one person for medical reason

World / 3 August 2021

More than 800 refugees on two rescue ships waiting for authorities to allow them to come ashore

3 August 2021

Sea-Watch 3 crew members search the horizon for refugee boat

World / 27 July 2021

Libyan coastguards threaten to arrest NGO refugee rescuers in international waters

27 July 2021

World / 27 July 2021

Whistleblower setenced to 45 months in jail for telling world of the US's drone assassination programme

27 July 2021

A portrait shot of Ken Macharia (left) and (right) with his

Men's Rugby Union / 19 July 2021

Asylum victory for gay rugby player

19 July 2021

Macharia's five-year Home Office ‘nightmare’ is finally over

An overcrowded migrant boat, right, tries to escape from the

World / 15 July 2021

Human rights violations continue ‘unabated’ in Libya's migrant detention camps, Amnesty study finds

15 July 2021

A woman with a headscarf walks between other people on a str

World / 15 July 2021

Top EU court rules bosses can ban employees from wearing ‘religious symbols’ such as headscarves

15 July 2021

Open Society Justice Initiative says ruling is discrimination masquerading as neutrality

Women and children lean against a barricade on Davis Street

World / 15 July 2021

Republicans and Loyalists slam Westminster's plans to end all prosecutions related to the Troubles

15 July 2021

Sinn Fein says the British government’s proposals would protect state forces from their “dirty role” in Ireland

81 people in Malta's search-and-rescue zone on Tuesday. When

World / 14 July 2021

Sea migration routes to Europe becoming deadlier, IOM warns

14 July 2021

More than 1,100 people have drowned at Europe's maritime borders so far this year, more than double the number from the same period last year

MSF rescuers approach a refugee boat in Malta's search-and-r

World / 14 June 2021

‘Every minute in which the authorities keep 410 rescued refugees at sea, is a minute too long’

14 June 2021

Refugees and migrants carrying their belongings flee a fire

World / 13 June 2021

Court case against teenagers sentenced to 10 years for burning down refugee camp didn't ‘meet the standards of a fair trial’

13 June 2021

Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo waves to supporters af

World / 11 June 2021

Latin American left congratulates Peru's Pedro Castillo on his apparent presidential victory

11 June 2021

The court in Chios where four of the Moria Six are on trial

World / 11 June 2021

Legal observers refused entry to trial of Afghan teenagers accused of burning down Moria refugee camp

11 June 2021

Refugee support groups warn the boys are being made scapegoats for the EU’s inhumane migration policy

Activists protest against the EU's border force, Frontex, at

World / 9 June 2021

Activists across Europe call for the abolition of the EU's border force, Frontex, at protests across the continent

9 June 2021

Police officers patrol alongside a steel wall at Evros river

World / 8 June 2021

Refugee support organisation calls for donations after donor pulls out following Greek ‘criminalisation campaign’

8 June 2021

Meanwhile, five NGO refugee rescue ships continued to be held in Italy

In this Wednesday, June 20, 2018, file photo, stuffed toy an

World / 8 June 2021

Almost 4,000 kids separated from families at US-Mexico border, Biden administration estimates

8 June 2021

Meanwhile, US Vice-President Kamala Harris criticised for telling migrants ‘do not come’ to border when seeking asylum at any border is 100% legal

A woman holds a baby at Karatepe refugee camp, on the easter

World / 7 June 2021

Greece designates Turkey as a safe place for some asylum-seekers

7 June 2021

Palestinian activist Muna al-Kurd (centre) with other activi

World / 7 June 2021

Palestinian activist twins released hours after Israeli police arrest them

7 June 2021

A body of an infant lies washed up on a beach in Zuwara, Lib

World / 26 May 2021

UN demands EU reforms it search-and-rescue policies days after refugee bodies wash up on a beach in Libya

26 May 2021

Meanwhile, lawyers take Frontex to court for the first time in the agency's history over its alleged role in pushbacks

A mother and child rescued by the Sea-Eye 4's crew disembark

World / 21 May 2021

Rescued refugees reach dry land after authorities send them on a two-day detour

21 May 2021

Sea-Eye chairman Gorden Isler says the 1951 Refugee Convention might as well be written off for good if EU countries continue to mistreat people at its borders

World / 18 May 2021

Malta refuses to allow 400 rescued refugees to come ashore

18 May 2021

The Sea-Eye 4 rescue ship heads to Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily, after mayor says the city is open to them

World / 17 May 2021

400 refugees saved in 72 hours off Libyan coast with no help from European authorities

17 May 2021

Rescuers on board the Sea-Eye 4 call for a port of safety to disembark the rescued

Relatives of 11-year-old Hussain Hamad, who was killed by an

World / 11 May 2021

Israeli air raids on Gaza kills at least 28 Palestinians

11 May 2021

UN calls for a ‘redoubling of efforts to calm down the situation’ and for an immediately halt to Israeli threats to evict hundreds of Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes

Aid workers for the International Organisation for Migration

World / 10 May 2021

European states urged to stop ignoring refugee deaths after at least six drown and 700 others are returned to Libya

10 May 2021

Football fans opposing the European Super League outside Old

Men's Football / 19 April 2021

Betrayed fans condemn European Super League greed

19 April 2021

‘Football is for the people. It’s time we took it back,’ supporters groups and community activists say

Men's Football / 8 April 2021

Newcastle supporters called on to help bring the club under fan control

8 April 2021

World / 1 April 2021

Open Arms finally allowed to bring rescued refugees to shore following the dramatic evacuation of a child

1 April 2021

A refugee boat pictured in the central Mediterranean at the

World / 30 March 2021

Coastguards urged not to stand by as another refugee boat sinks

30 March 2021

Migrants inside a refugee camp watch the visit of EU Commiss

World / 29 March 2021

Top EU official condemned for window-dressing the containment of refugees

29 March 2021

World / 26 March 2021

Human rights groups demand 2 year trial against the El Hiblu 3 come to an end

26 March 2021

‘Instead of being prosecuted,’ campaigners say, the young men ‘should be celebrated for their actions in preventing the return of 108 precarious lives to Libya’

Rescued refugees leave the Ocean Viking rescue ship and step

World / 23 March 2021

116 rescued refugees finally given permission to come ashore

23 March 2021

Authorities ignored their rescuers' calls for days

People are led out of a King Soopers supermarket after a gun

World / 23 March 2021

10 dead in Colorado in seventh mass shooting in as many days

23 March 2021

A malnourished newborn baby lies in an incubator at the Al-S

World / 23 March 2021

Children make up a quarter of all civilian deaths in Yemen war, charity warns

23 March 2021

Britain urged to stop arming the war and supplying the Saudis with the aircraft that are dropping the bombs on Yemen’s children

World / 22 March 2021

Sea Watch 3 refugee rescue ship detained in Italy for ‘saving too many lives’ again

22 March 2021

Meanwhile the 116 survivors on board the Ocean Viking rescue ship continue four-day wait to be allowed to come ashore

Naomi Klein (left) and (right) Cornel West have called for d

World / 17 March 2021

Naomi Klein and Cornel West join activists' call for donations to refugee rescue charity under legal attack

17 March 2021

A small boat is towed by a Border Force vessel as Border For

Exclusive / 11 March 2021

Fleet of drone snoopers is a costly waste

11 March 2021

Tories cite ‘commercial reasons’ to hide spend on military technology at English Channel

Members of the Iuventa refugee rescue ship receive the Paul

World / 4 March 2021

Italy charges Iuventa activists who saved 14,000 lives in the Mediterranean with aiding and abetting illegal immigration

4 March 2021

The Sea Watch 3's rescue crew evacuate people from a boat in

World / 1 March 2021

At least 15 refugees dead in Mediterranean shipwreck

1 March 2021

Meanwhile, 363 who were rescued this weekend by the crew of an NGO rescue ship still wait for Italy or Malta to allow them to come ashore

An SMH rescuer attends to people onboard a wooden boat

World / 19 February 2021

NGO refugee rescue ship left waiting on European help that never came

19 February 2021

Sea Watch 3 finally released after being held for seven months for ‘absurd’ reasons

nside the Moonbird with the Alpine Aqualina out the window

Features / 17 February 2021

The truth about refugees in the central Mediterranean

17 February 2021

BEN COWLES tells how civilian refugee rescue organisations saved the lives of 149 people in Malta’s search-and-rescue zone last weekend while the authorities and passing ships refused assistance

A Libyan coastguard ship blasts past one of the Open Arms Rh

Features / 16 February 2021

Life and death on the Mediterranean Sea

16 February 2021

BEN COWLES talks with the co-ordinator for the reconnaissance aircraft, Seabird, about dramatic events at sea last Friday, after a flimsy boat carrying 40 people was spotted near the island of Lampedusa

World / 14 February 2021

Open Arms refugee rescue ship saves the lives of 149 this weekend

14 February 2021

World / 11 February 2021

Close to 10,000 people pushed back to Turkey by Greek coastguard and Frontex, activists allege

11 February 2021

New report by Mare Liberum documents 321 migrant pushbacks in the Aegean Sea last year

Relatives and friends of the missing stage a commemoraction

World / 9 February 2021

‘CommemorActions’ held across the world in solidarity with the families of 91 missing refugees

9 February 2021

Two rescued kids on board the Ocean Viking rescue ship

World / 8 February 2021

422 refugees make it to safety in Italy after a weekend of mass escape attempts from Libya

8 February 2021

A boat carrying refugees off the coast of Libya as seen by t

World / 5 February 2021

Over 1,000 refugees attempt to escape Libya by sea in 24 hours

5 February 2021

World / 25 January 2021

Europe must resume saving refugee lives in the Mediterranean, rescuers say

25 January 2021

Ocean Viking disembarks 373 people in Italy

Refugees and crew members on board the Ocean Viking

World / 24 January 2021

Seasick kids on refugee ship in urgent need of reaching dry land, rescuers say

24 January 2021

‘The 373 people we have on board the Ocean Viking all deserve the right to disembark in a place of safety,’ the ship's comms officer tells the Star

A member of the Ocean Viking's crew brings a child on board

World / 21 January 2021

NGO's ‘beautiful co-operation’ saves 120 lives off the coast of Libya

21 January 2021

The Fezzan, a Libyan coastguard ship, intercepts a refugee b

World / 20 January 2021

48 people sent back to Libya a day after a tragic refugee shipwreck

20 January 2021

People listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a rall

World / 12 January 2021

Trump supporters planning to ‘storm’ government buildings across the US in armed protests, FBI warns

12 January 2021

The Ocean Viking's crew wave goodbye to Marseille and head t

World / 11 January 2021

NGO refugee rescue ship back on patrol after detention in Italy

11 January 2021

The Ocean Viking was held by the Italian coastguard for months after its rescue of 181 refugees

Members of the Open Arms crew stand on a wooden boat in the

World / 3 January 2021

Malta refuses to allow over 50 unaccompanied rescued children to come ashore

3 January 2021

World / 31 December 2020

Why haven't the European authorities begun looking for the 13 refugees who went missing on Christmas day, families ask

31 December 2020

World / 21 December 2020

Ocean Viking rescue ship released after five-month detention

21 December 2020

Open Arms search and rescue co-ordinator David Llado

Features / 18 December 2020

‘There were too many people on the rubber boat, and we were too few’

18 December 2020

Open Arms search-and-rescue Coordinator DAVID LLADO tells the Star's Ben Cowles about the moment 118 refugees fell into sea when their boat split in half and how his team rescued them

World / 18 December 2020

Nothing to celebrate this International Migrants Day, refugee organisations say

18 December 2020

Alarm Phone asks why authorities still have no answer to what happened to 91 people who went missing in the Mediterranean in February

World / 14 December 2020

Saudi human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul's on trial for ‘terrorism’

14 December 2020

A flooded refugee tent in the Kara Tepe / Moria 2 camp on Le

World / 14 December 2020

Refugees stuck in Moria 2 camp eke out their lives in floods and sludge

14 December 2020

Photo of the incident supplied by Frontex

Report / 10 December 2020

EU border charade puts immigrant lives in danger

10 December 2020

Why did Frontex help an NGO ship rescue refugees in the Mediterranean, asks BEN COWLES

Garment workers in Bangladesh take part in a protest demandi

World / 27 November 2020

Progressives around the world demand Bezos pay his debts to workers and the planet

27 November 2020

Campaigners demand Amazon improve its workers' pay and conditions, recognise workers' rights to organise, stop harming the environment, and stop supporting cops and immigration authorities

Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, US Congresswoman Tulsi G

World / 27 November 2020

US Congresswoman Gabbard calls for Assange and Snowden to be given presidential pardon

27 November 2020

Life jackets litter the beach off the coast of Libya near th

World / 26 November 2020

132 deaths in reported the central Mediterranean since November 1

26 November 2020

World / 13 November 2020

Four refugee shipwrecks this week push Mediterranean death toll over 900, IOM warns

13 November 2020

The Open Arms NGO rescue ship, now carrying 259 refugees, ordered to sail to Sicily

Refugees fall in the sea after the floor in their boat rips

World / 11 November 2020

First NGO rescue mission in over a month saves the lives of close to 200 people

11 November 2020

European states have blockaded seven civilian rescue ships from going back to sea since October

Sea Eye's ship, Alan Kurdi, on patrol in the central Mediter

Features / 9 November 2020

Stopped from saving lives in the Mediterranean sea

9 November 2020

It's been a month since the Italian port authorities seized the last NGO rescue ship. In that time over 150 refugees have drowned and over a thousand have been intercepted by the Libyan coastguard, writes BEN COWLES

NHS workers outside Downing Street in August protest against

Exclusive: / 30 October 2020

Hospital workers forced to pay hefty bills after accommodation funds dry up despite second Covid wave

30 October 2020

Government urged to continue to fund hotel beds for frontline staff

World / 18 October 2020

Activists and relatives call for rescue of survivors adrift in the Mediterranean for nine days

18 October 2020

World / 12 October 2020

Would EU coastguards leave white people to battle a storm alone, activists ask

12 October 2020

43 people in a wooden boat near Malta battle two-metre high waves as Alarm Phone's mayday calls go answered

World / 11 October 2020

Horrid weekend for refugees and NGO rescuers

11 October 2020

World / 8 October 2020

UN human rights expert condemns the criminalisation of NGO refugee rescuers

8 October 2020

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives a s

World / 23 September 2020

NGO refugee rescuers unimpressed by EU's proposals for a new migration and asylum pact

23 September 2020

World / 23 September 2020

Alan Kurdi refugee rescue ship heads to France after Italy refuses to help

23 September 2020

World / 22 September 2020

EU urged to reform it ‘unworkable’ and ‘untenable’ migration and asylum policies

22 September 2020

UNHCR, IOM, Oxfam and urge the European Commission to end ‘ad hoc crisis-driven approach’

World / 20 September 2020

Europe's criminalisation of NGO refugee rescuers reaches ‘new peak’ after fifth ship detained in Italy

20 September 2020

Lea Reisner on the deck of the Louise Michel

Features / 18 September 2020

Thanks to Banksy, Louise Michel is fighting oppression once more

18 September 2020

LEA REISNER tells the Star about the Louise Michel, a feminist refugee rescue ship named after the famous anarchist and funded by the world's most elusive street-art star — and how the civil fleet came to its aid when Europe abandoned it

An Italian coastguard vessel (left) picks up some of the ref

World / 17 September 2020

76 refugees jump overboard in desperate bid to swim to Italy and end their nine-day ordeal

17 September 2020

Women and children on board the Open Arms rescue ship wait t

World / 15 September 2020

Malta and Italy refuse doctor's call to evacuate pregnant women from refugee rescue ship

15 September 2020

World / 13 September 2020

40-day nightmare over for 27 stranded refugees on commercial ship

13 September 2020

Mare Jonio transfers the castaways and brings them to Italy

Migrants take part in a rally near Mytilene town, on the nor

World / 11 September 2020

Refugee support workers on Lesbos warn of ‘chaos’ on the island as riot police are sent in

11 September 2020

Former Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques, dur

World / 11 September 2020

Activists happy Rio Tinto bosses quit following company's desecration of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site

11 September 2020

Survival International warns the destruction of indigenous lands is ‘pretty much the business model’ for companies like Rio Tinto

NoTAP protesters face off against the Italian police

World / 10 September 2020

Environmentalists fighting against controversial fossil-fuel pipeline head to court

10 September 2020

World / 8 September 2020

Italy grounds the NGO recognisance plane Moonbird

8 September 2020

David Graeber pictured in Amsterdam in 2015

Britain / 3 September 2020

Anthropologist, author and activist David Graeber dies, aged 59

3 September 2020

World / 1 September 2020

Sea Watch 4's rescued finally allowed to come ashore

1 September 2020

World / 30 August 2020

NGO refugee rescuers 'punished for saving lives at the world's deadliest border'

30 August 2020

Civilian rescue ship assists the Louise Michel with rescue after Malta ignores the ship's state of emergency

The Etienne merchant ship pulls up alongside a small wooden

World / 27 August 2020

Malta's three-week punishment of a merchant vessel could discourage refugee rescues, activists warn

27 August 2020

Alarm Phone brands the stand-off, the longest before a European harbour, as ‘yet another low point in Europe's disastrous actions in the Mediterranean’

Indigenous campaigners from Standing Our Ground block multin

World / 24 August 2020

Indigenous Australian tribes block multinational mining corporation from desecrating their land

24 August 2020

A screenshot of some of the survivors from last week's shipw

World / 24 August 2020

Shipwrecked survivors say gunmen sank their boat

24 August 2020

Police in riot gear stand outside the Kenosha County Court H

World / 24 August 2020

Protests after US police shot a black man seven times in the back

24 August 2020

World / 20 August 2020

European blockade of NGO rescue ships condemned as 45 die in shipwreck off Libya

20 August 2020

World / 19 August 2020

Germany orders detention of activists' ships

19 August 2020

Mare Liberum says it won't accept the blockade of its human rights mission in the Aegean Sea

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer talking to students at Queen

Britain / 17 August 2020

Starmer's Daily Mail article sparks backlash

17 August 2020

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought into Do

Britain / 17 August 2020

Activists to prevent English Channel becoming ‘a mass migrant graveyard like the Mediterranean’

17 August 2020

World / 14 August 2020

‘We are going to sail’: Activists ready to defy German law designed to stop them

14 August 2020

Mare Liberum says it does not intend to provoke the German transport ministry but that they must go back to monitoring Greece's illegal migrant pushbacks in the Aegean

Despite its life saving mission, the new boat from Sea Watch

Features / 14 August 2020

‘We've got to get ready for rescue again’

14 August 2020

Doctors Without Borders' HANNAH WALLACE BOWMAN tells the Star about the medical charity's imminent return to the central Mediterranean aboard the Sea Watch 4

A group of people thought to be migrants crossing the Channe

Britain / 13 August 2020

Activists raising funds for humanitarian ship in the channel

13 August 2020