SAROBMED, the Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean, was a consortium of researchers, civil society groups, and other organisations with interests in the field of cross-border maritime migration. The focus was in particular on providing a monitoring system for
refugee
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. travel in the
Mediterranean Sea.
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History
SAROBMED was set up by Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax of Queen Mary University of London.[ Its website lists incidents documented from 24 April 2017 to 19 January 2019. During this time, its associated researchers produced a number of publications in the field of refugee safety in transit.][ It made submissions to the United Nations.][ Its model for monitoring incidents was viewed favourably.][
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NGO PARTNERS
In addition to researchers from academia, SAROBMED listed the following NGOs as partners:NGO Partners
19 January 2019, ''sarobmed.org'', accessed 3 July 2021
* Médecins Sans Frontières
*Jugend Rettet
Jugend Rettet is a non-governmental organization (NGO) from Berlin. Its goal is to save drowning persons at the Mediterranean Sea. Operations are conducted with the ''Iuventa'', a ship that sails under Dutch flag. This ship was seized in August ...
*Sea-Watch
Sea-Watch is a German non-governmental organisation that operates in the Mediterranean Sea, notably by commissioning ships to rescue migrants.
History
On 6 November 2017, the crew of a Sea-Watch ship rescued 58 people in an operation hindered b ...
*Proactiva Open Arms
Proactiva Open Arms (POA) is a Spanish NGO devoted to search and rescue (SAR) at sea. Set up in October 2015, it carried out its first rescue action that same month from its base on the Greek island of Lesbos.
As well as maintaining a permanent b ...
*Proem-Aid Proem-Aid ('Professional Emergency Aid') is a Spanish NGO which operates in the Mediterranean Sea with the aims of aiding and rescuing those in distress on the water. It was formed by a group of emergency service workers who volunteered their time a ...
*Mission Lifeline Mission Lifeline is an association from Dresden, founded in 2016, whose purpose is to rescue people at sea in the Mediterranean. The rescue ship '' Lifeline'' was initially used for this, and since the end of August 2019 the '' Mission Eleonore'' ha ...
*Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario
Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario (Humanitarian Maritime Rescue) (SMH) is a Non-governmental organization (NGO) that is governed by the principles of "volunteering, solidarity, humanity, universality, equality, impartiality and dignity" founded in ...
* Borderline Europe
*Refugee Rescue
Refugee Rescue is a charitable Non-Governmental Organisation based in Northern Ireland which operates the rescue vessel '' Mo Chara'' from the North Shore of Lesvos, Greece, covering parts of the Aegean Sea. It also fulfills a coastguard role alo ...
* SOS Méditerranée
* Alarm Phone
*Sea-Eye
Sea-Eye is a German non-governmental organization headquartered in Regensburg. It participates in the rescue of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean, in particular by having chartered the ships '' Sea-Eye'' and '' Seefuchs/ Sea Fox'' until Aug ...
* Mare Liberum
* The AIRE Centre
* Equal Rights
References
External links
SAROBMED Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean: Home page
European migrant crisis
Migration-related organizations
2017 establishments in the United Kingdom
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