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.


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Joint NGO Statement: Survivors of traumatic incidents at sea need support, not detention!

aditus foundation and Jesuit Refugee Service (Malta) are extremely saddened by the recent news of yet another tragedy at sea that resulted in several people dying. We are further upset by Malta’s treatment of the survivors. According to news sites that we are unable to confirm, 21 persons were taken to Malta’s main detention centre. 

We underline that anyone going through such a horrific experience requires immediate psychological support. The survivors came within inches of death whilst at the same time witnessing their friends and possibly loved ones drowning around them. No words can possibly describe the mental state they must be in.

We therefore strongly urge Malta to offer them all the psychological support they require, particularly to the most vulnerable. This support cannot be provided in detention, but requires a safe and caring space. This is an opportunity for Malta to do what is right. 

As always, we stand ready to provide our own services as soon as we are able to.

(AFM photo of the boat while out at sea: Jonathan Borg, from Times of Malta)


Press Statement: Stability Not Uncertainty: We Demand Rights! 

🇬🇧 Valletta, 22nd February, 2024

We, as long-term migrants living and working in Malta, are uniting to demand stability, not uncertainty, in our lives. In light of recent events and ongoing struggles faced by the migrant community, we are asserting our rights and calling for urgent action from authorities. We arrived in Malta years ago, leaving behind critical situations in our countries of origin, and now call Malta home. Although we were neither given protection nor a residence card, we were given the right to work legitimately and in turn to pay tax and national insurance for decades.

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Rights, Flights, and A New Side of Island Life

#KeepingUpWithTheInterns

As I come to the end of my first month of interning at aditus, it is hard to put together a well-wrapped and ribbon-tied summary of my experience so far – and to answer the ultimate question, “what have you been up to in January?

Never try, never succeed, right?

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Vacancy Interpreters: Arabic, Bengali, Urdu

We are looking for freelance interpreters to assist our lawyers when giving pro bono legal advice to our clients at our office or in detention centers. Paid on any hourly basis and person needs to be VAT registered.

Please email us with your CVs.