Guardian: EU asks tech firms to pitch refugee-tracking systems

“Border agency Frontex has asked for designs for smartphone apps and databases to track and manage refugees arriving in Europe […]
But some of the frontline organisations working with migrants questioned how such a system would work. Dr Maurice Stierl of WatchTheMed Alarm Phone, an organisation of activists that supports free movement of migrants, criticised the proposals. The organisation operates an emergency phone service for migrants whose boats get into trouble in various stretches of sea around Europe, contacting the nearest coastguards to alert them when they receive an SOS call. In the last 15 months they have received about 1,400 distress calls. “

External Link: Guardian: EU asks tech firms to pitch refugee-tracking systems

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Alarm Phone is supporting the #Madleen declaration, that interlinks the Gaza genocide, the environmental destruction, the border externalisation and the treatment of migrants in the aftermath of the interception of Madleen.
Read here the full statement:

Chroniques à Mer épisode #32: jusqu'à les retrouver.
Des témoignages précieux,intimes et politiques, racontent ce que c'est que de subir la politique de mort aux frontières de l’Europe.

⚫ Shipwreck in the Central Med off #Libya!

After a group of around 30 people escaped #Garabulli on June 10th, the boat capsized some hours after.
Only five people were rescued, the others are missing.

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