The maritime ‘mixed migrant’ problem – the movement of asylum-seekers and economic migrants across large areas of sea, usually in wholly inadequate craft with consequent loss of life – continues in several parts of the world.
The IMRF continues to advocate action at the international level to address this ongoing disaster, and to defend the fundamental principles of maritime search and rescue, as well as the humanitarian principle of non-refoulement implicit in the SAR principle of delivery of anyone in distress to a ‘place of safety’.
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