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    A normalisation of violence against refugees and migrants has taken root
    A normalisation of violence against refugees and migrants has taken root
    “My brother and I came on foot from Afghanistan, and we tried to cross the border between Italy and France to join our family in Germany. On the mount...
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    Search and Rescue: Baby Ali and his family are safe, but his future and other survivors remains uncertain
    Search and Rescue: Baby Ali and his family are safe, but his future and other survivors remains uncertain
    Central Mediterranean – At 11:31 on Wednesday 7th December, little Ali* entered the world on board the Geo Barents, a search and rescue vessel charter...
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    Mediterranean Sea: 111 rescued people waiting for a place of safety
    Mediterranean Sea: 111 rescued people waiting for a place of safety
    All 111 survivors on the Geo Barents need to disembark in a safe place as soon as possible. Many recount that they have attempted the sea-crossing mul...
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    Mediterranean Sea: survivors seize the right to speak
    Mediterranean Sea: survivors seize the right to speak
    In the Central Mediterranean, survivors on the Geo Barents give voice to the violence they have experienced and witnessed.
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    The father who faced the sea so his sons might go to school
    The father who faced the sea so his sons might go to school
    Central Mediterranean - Ali*, 7 years old, rushes to hold his father’s hand as soon as the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) re...
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    Central Mediterranean Sea: 10 more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route
    Central Mediterranean Sea: 10 more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route
    Doctors Without Borders search-and-rescue teams found 10 people dead yesterday on a wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean after 186 others were res...
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    Search and rescue: “They describe Libya as hell”
    Search and rescue: “They describe Libya as hell”
    Many of the unaccompanied minors rescued by Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) search and rescue vesselGeo Barentsfrom the Medit...
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    Central Mediterranean: almost 400 people rescued in less than two days
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    Central Mediterranean: almost 400 people rescued in less than two days
    The team on board the Geo Barents have conducted five rescues in less than two days in extremely challenging conditions. Many among the survivors are ...
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    Central Mediterranean: Doctors Without Borders, saving lives at sea for the seventh consecutive year
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    Central Mediterranean: Doctors Without Borders, saving lives at sea for the seventh consecutive year
    Amsterdam: Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announces today the relaunch of its search and rescue activities in the central Me...
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