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.

MSF requests the revocation of the Geo Barents’ detention

MSF is determined to return to sea to save lives after Geo Barents detained in Italy

Seven people dead and 10 missing in shipwreck off Italian island

Ongoing violence against detained migrants forces MSF to suspend Tripoli detention centre activities

Witnessing harrowing crossings onboard the Geo Barents

Greece and EU must change approach to migration as scale of people’s suffering revealed

Constructing Crisis at Europe’s Border

MSF returns to saving lives at sea in central Mediterranean

Ongoing human tragedy in Mediterranean following 130 people feared dead
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
