Moving On – One Year Alarmphone
Contributed by Edgar Walthert on Apr 19th, 2016. Artwork published in
circa February 2016
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Source: bildargumente.de Design by Bildargumente, photos by Sylvain Mazas. License: All Rights Reserved.
The Watch The Med Alarm Phone was started in October 2014 by activist networks and civil society actors in Europe and Northern Africa. The project set up a self-organized hotline for refugees in distress in the Mediterranean Sea.
It offers the affected boat-people a second option to make their SOS noticeable. The alarm phone documents and mobilises in real-time. In this way, pressure to rescue is built-up, wherever possible and push- backs and other forms of human rights violations of refugees and migrants at sea can be opposed.
Thus, the Alarm Phone is not a rescue number, but an alarm number to support rescue operations.
Source: bildargumente.de Design by Bildargumente, photos by Sylvain Mazas. License: All Rights Reserved.
Source: bildargumente.de Design by Bildargumente, photos by Sylvain Mazas. License: All Rights Reserved.
Source: bildargumente.de Design by Bildargumente, photos by Sylvain Mazas. License: All Rights Reserved.
