Closing safe and legal options for people to reach Europe pushes them further into people smugglers' networks. In Libya, the detention of migrants and refugees is a thriving enterprise of kidnapping and extortion.
MSF is saving the lives of people trying to cross the central Mediterranean Sea with our own search and rescue vessel, Geo Barents. We also provide assistance to people held in Libyan detention centres and those arriving in Europe.

Webclip - 3 Things to Know: Impact of Migration Policies
3 things to know - the impact of migration policies
The EU's migration policies are having a direct impact across the Mediterranean Sea, while people are trying to flee dangerous conditions in Libya. Here are three ways that the EU's policies on migration impact on the lives of people trying to seek safety.

Hundreds of people require port of safety after multiple rescues from Central Mediterranean

The father who faced the sea so his sons might go to school

Ten more lives lost on the world’s deadliest migration route

Search and rescue: “They describe Libya as hell”

Nearly 400 people rescued from the Mediterranean need a place of safety

Stories of survival at sea

Medical care resumes in Tripoli detention centres

“We can only help our patients to survive” new camp on Samos

One year on from Moria fire, EU denies dignity to migrants trapped on Greek islands
Research and analysis

Left to Drown in the Southern European Border: One year of Geo Barents at sea

Constructing Crisis at Europe’s Border

The Aquarius Aquarium

One year after the EU-Turkey deal: migrants and asylum seekers are paying the price with their health
