SAROBMED

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 travel in the Mediterranean Sea.[1]

History

SAROBMED was set up by Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax of Queen Mary University of London.[2][3] Its website lists incidents documented from 24 April 2017 to 19 January 2019.[4] During this time, its associated researchers produced a number of publications in the field of refugee safety in transit.[5] It made submissions to the United Nations.[6] Its model for monitoring incidents was viewed favourably.[7]

NGO PARTNERS

In addition to researchers from academia, SAROBMED listed the following NGOs as partners:[8]

References
  1. SAROBMED: The Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean 22 November 2018 Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht & Migration e.V. (FFM-ONLINE), accessed 21 June 2021
  2. Between Life, Security and Rights: Framing the Interdiction of 'Boat Migrants' in the Central Mediterranean and Australia by Violeta Moreno-Lax, Daniel Ghezelbash, and Natalie Klein core.ac.uk, accessed 21 June 2021 '...analysis takes a systemic integration approach to reflect on the complex dynamics underpinning responses to the phenomenon in Australia and the Central Mediterranean.' '...The authors are respectively: Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary University of London, SAROBMED Coordinator, and lead counsel in ECtHR, S.S. and Others v. Italy, Appl. 21660/18 (pending)and C.O. and A.J. v. Italy, Appl. 40396/18 (pending) with the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN); Senior Lecturer in Law, Macquarie University; and Professor of Law, University of New South Wales.'
  3. Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, LLB/LLM (Murcia); MA (College of Europe); Post-graduate Certificate (ULB); PhD (Louvain); PGCAP (Queen Mary); Reader in Law www.qmul.ac.uk, accessed 21 June 2021 (amongst other roles 'founder and general coordinator of SAROBMED: The Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean')
  4. incidents 19 January 2019, sarobmed.org, accessed 3 July 2021
  5. Daniel Ghezelbash, Violeta Moreno-Lax, Natalie Klein and Brian Opeskin SECURITIZATION OF SEARCH AND RESCUE AT SEA: THE RESPONSE TO BOAT MIGRATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND OFFSHORE AUSTRALIA Cambridge University Press, www.cambridge.org 16 January 2018, accessed 21 June 2021 'An initiative has been launched, drawing on the premises of the 'comprehensive approach' put forward in Moreno-Lax and Papastavridis (n 33), for the establishment of a Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean (SAROBMED)'
  6. Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants’ report on pushback practices and their impact on the human rights of migrants p.3 Jointly submitted by The Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway and the Global Legal Action Network www.ohchr.org, accessed 21 June 2021
  7. The EU Approach on Migration in the Mediterranean www.europarl.europa.eu, accessed 21 June 2021 p.16 'The Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean (SAROBMED) project, recording SAR and interdiction incidents during 2015-19 through a consortium of researchers and civil society organisations, offers a model that could be replicated.'
  8. NGO Partners 19 January 2019, sarobmed.org, accessed 3 July 2021


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