Moving On – One Year Alarmphone

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alarmphone.org:

The Watch The Med Alarm Phone was started in October 2014 by activist networks and civil society actors in Europe and Northern Africa. The project set up a self-organized hotline for refugees in distress in the Mediterranean Sea.

It offers the affected boat-people a second option to make their SOS noticeable. The alarm phone documents and mobilises in real-time. In this way, pressure to rescue is built-up, wherever possible and push-backs and other forms of human rights violations of refugees and migrants at sea can be opposed.

Thus, the Alarm Phone is not a rescue number, but an alarm number to support rescue operations.

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Source: http://bildargumente.de.Design by Bildargumente, photos by Sylvain Mazas. License: All Rights Reserved.