SAROBMED, the Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean, was a

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of researchers, civil society groups, and other organisations with interests in the field of cross-border maritime migration. The focus was in particular on providing a monitoring system for

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travel in the

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History

SAROBMED was set up by Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax of

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. Its website lists incidents documented from 24 April 2017 to 19 January 2019. During this time, its associated researchers produced a number of publications in the field of refugee safety in transit. It made submissions to the

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. Its model for monitoring incidents was viewed favourably.

NGO partners

In addition to researchers from academia, SAROBMED listed the following

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s as partners: *

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced ), known in some English-speaking settings as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zo ...

Jugend Rettet Jugend Rettet is a non-governmental organization (NGO) from Berlin. Its goal is to save drowning persons at the Mediterranean Sea. Operations are conducted with the ''Iuventa'', a ship that sails under Dutch flag. This ship was seized in August ...

Sea-Watch Sea-Watch is a German non-governmental organisation that operates in the Mediterranean Sea, notably by commissioning ships to rescue migrants. History On 6 November 2017, the crew of a Sea-Watch ship rescued 58 people in an operation hindered b ...

Proactiva Open Arms Proactiva Open Arms (POA) is a Spanish NGO devoted to search and rescue (SAR) at sea. Set up in October 2015, it carried out its first rescue action that same month from its base on the Greek island of Lesbos. As well as maintaining a permanent ba ...

* Proem-Aid * Mission Lifeline *

Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario (Humanitarian Maritime Rescue) (SMH) is a Non-governmental organization (NGO) that is governed by the principles of "volunteering, solidarity, humanity, universality, equality, impartiality and dignity" founded in ...

* Borderline Europe * Refugee Rescue *

SOS Méditerranée ''SOS Méditerranée'' is a European, maritime-humanitarian organisation for the rescue of life at sea, currently operating in the Mediterranean sea in international waters north of Libya. The organization chartered the ''Aquarius (NGO ship), Aqu ...

* Alarm Phone *

Sea-Eye Sea-Eye is a German non-governmental organization headquartered in Regensburg. It participates in the rescue of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean, in particular by having chartered the ships '' Sea-Eye'' and '' Seefuchs/ Sea Fox'' until Aug ...

Mare Liberum ''Mare Liberum'' (or ''The Freedom of the Seas'') is a book in Latin on international law written by the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius, first published in 1609. In ''The Free Sea'', Grotius formulated the new principle that the sea w ...

The AIRE Centre The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) is an English registered charity, with offices located in London. It provides free legal advice on human rights and EU law issues in Europe, and seeks to promote the dissemination of informa ...

* Equal Rights

References

External links

* European migrant crisis Migration-related organizations 2017 establishments in the United Kingdom {{UK-org-stub