Appeal Archives - aditus foundation

NGO Press Statement: Malta must stop illegally pushing back people to Libya!

We are extremely concerned at yet another allegation that Malta illegally pushed back to Libya a group of 83 persons. According to the reports, the people were in distress at sea in Malta’s Search and Rescue Zone. The reports further allege that, instead of coordinating their rescue, Malta somehow permitted the Libyan authorities to enter Malta’s zone of rescue responsibility and to return the people to Libya.

Libya is not a safe country. It remains unsafe due to widespread and on-going conflict. This is aggravated by the fact that it does not yet have a Government able to provide security and stability to the entire country and to all people living in it.

Open Letter to Maltese MEPs on the vote for EU Migration and Asylum Pact

Together with our friends at JRS Malta, we sent an open letter to Maltese MEPs on the vote for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact.

What is the Pact? Why are human rights organisations all over the EU lamenting its adoption as the end of asylum in Europe? Read more here.

The EU Must Provide Future-Proof Solutions for People Displaced from Ukraine

We added our signature to an important European civil society statement signed by 131 organisations, calling on the EU to act now to ensure people who have fled Ukraine have options to stay in the EU once temporary protection ends.

Though temporary protection is set to end in 2025, the EU has not yet offered any harmonised proposals for the longer-term regularised stay for people displaced from Ukraine. This is creating uncertainty for some 4.3 million current temporary protection holders.

The statement under the EU to provide future-proof solutions for people displaced from Ukraine.

Joint letter to the OPM on the situation in Gaza

We joined over 350 persons and signed this letter to Malta’s PM. We are urging Malta to take more concrete action on the situation in Gaza.

This is the full list of signatories. If you would like to sign up, you can do so here.

Joint Statement: NGOs call on Member States and European Parliament: Go no Lower: Reject the Use of Legal Loopholes in EU Asylum Law Reforms

The Member States and European Parliament, the EU’s co-legislators, are moving forward with a reform of EU asylum law in the form of the Pact on Migration and Asylum which reduces protection standards and undermines human rights of asylum seekers in Europe. But not only.

Some EU Member States are seeking to revive an additional proposal on “instrumentalisation” launched in 2021, which would allow them to derogate from their obligations in cases of alleged “instrumentalisation of migrants”, thereby undermining harmonisation and the common system. For more detail, see this analysis and statement.