Thematic Focus: Protection at Sea

After Mare Nostrum: Delinking the Acceptation of Disembarkation and the Assumption of Responsibility for Asylum Seekers Rescued at Sea, Position paper prepared for High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges (IIHL, Dec. 2014) [text]

*Central Mediterranean Sea Initiative (CMSI): Action Plan (UNHCR, updated March 2015) [text]

The EU Stands by as Thousands of Migrants Drown in the Mediterranean (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2015) [text]

IMO High-Level Meeting to Address Unsafe Mixed Migration by Sea, London, 4-5 March 2015 [info]
- Follow link for overview and presentations.

*Oral Update on the High Commissioner’s 2014 Dialogue on Protection Challenges on Protection at Sea and Follow-up to the Dialogues in 2012 and 2013, 62nd Meeting of the Standing Committee, Geneva, 3-5 March 2015 [info]

*Protection at Sea: 125 Organizations Deliver Statement to Human Rights Council (ICMC, March 2015) [text]

Sea Change, Geneva, 9 Dec. 2014 [info]
- Follow link for overview of event and video of highlights.

Selective Bibliography on Boat People, Migrants at Sea, Border Control, Extraterritoriality and Human Rights (Mediterranean Focus) (Peace Palace Library, Feb. 2015) [text]

UNHCR Proposals to Address Current and Future Arrivals of Asylum-seekers, Refugees and Migrants by Sea to Europe (UNHCR, March 2015) [text]
- See also related press release.

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- Thematic Focus: Protection at Sea (15 Dec. 2014)

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