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.

Ocean Viking arbitrarily quarantined by Italian authorities over COVID-19 fears

Left out in the cold: MSF provides emergency beds for teenage migrants

Refugees trapped in Libya: Nowhere to go but the sea

European leaders: Stop punishing asylum seekers on the Greek islands

Survivors disembark in Italy amidst deadly week in the Mediterranean

European leaders must urgently allow disembarkation of 104 survivors

Ocean Viking survivors to disembark in Lampedusa six days after the first survivors were rescued at sea

Unaccompanied minors, symbols of a policy of mistreatment

Rejected and traumatised: Unaccompanied minors arriving in France
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
