Forensic Oceanography – visibleproject

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  • Blaming the Rescuers
    https://blamingtherescuers.org/iuventa
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CQaj2KNIZw

    In our report we analysed and countered the arguments used to fuel a “toxic narrative” against rescue NGOs, which emanated from EU agencies such as Frontex and different institutional bodies in Italy. While this campaign had remained largely on a discursive level, over the summer of 2017 it quickly escalated with the Italian government’s attempt to impose a “code of conduct” on rescue NGOs. An intense standoff ensued as several NGOs, from larger organisations such as Doctors without Borders to smaller ones such as the German Jugend Rettet (‘Youth Rescue’), refused to sign it before the announced deadline of 31 July 2017, claiming that the code would have threatened their activities at sea with requests that a leading legal scholar had described as “nonsensical”, “dishonest” and “illegal”.

    On 2 August 2017, only days after this deadline had passed, Jugend Rettet’s ship, the Iuventa, was seized by the Italian judiciary. Its crew was accused of having colluded with smugglers during three different rescue operations: the first on the 10 September 2016, the second and third on 18 June 2017. The order of seizure contended that on those occasions the Iuventa was being used to “aiding and abetting illegal immigration” by arranging the direct handover of migrants by smugglers and returning empty boats for re-use.

    The video presented here offers a counter-investigation of the authorities’ version, and a refutation of their accusations.

    • Forensic Oceanography – visibleproject
      http://www.visibleproject.org/blog/project/forensic-oceanography-various-locations-in-europe-and-northern-afric

      Forensic Oceanography (FO) is a project that critically investigates the militarised border regime in the Mediterranean Sea, analysing the spatial and aesthetic conditions that have caused over 16,500 registered deaths at the maritime borders of Europe over the last 20 years. Together with a wide network of NGOs, scientists, journalists and activist groups, FO has produced, since 2011, several maps, video animations (e.g. Liquid Traces), visualisations, human rights reports (e.g. the report on the ‘Left-to-Die Boat’ case) and websites (e.g. www.watchthemed.net) that attempt to document the violence perpetrated against migrants at sea and challenge the regime of visibility imposed by surveillance means on this contested area.

      By combining testimonies of human rights violations with digital technologies such as satellite imagery, vessel tracking data, geo-spatial mapping and drift modelling, FO has exercised a critical right to look at sea with a two-fold purpose. On the one hand, using surveillance means ‘against the grain’, it has produced spatial analysis that has been used within existing legal and political forums, supporting the quest for justice of migrants and their families in legal proceedings, parliamentary auditions, human rights and journalistic investigations. At the same time, through a series of installations and articles, FO has attempted to spur a debate on the politics of image production in the age of surveillance and on what it means to produce images, videos and sounds that become evidence and documentation of human rights violations.

    • Bonjour @unagi !
      Super de mettre en avant le travail de Lorenzo Pezzani e Charles Heller...
      Toutefois, je voulais te rendre attentif du fait que les vidéos que tu as postés relèvent de différentes enquêtes faites par les deux chercheurs...

      Celle-ci :
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CQaj2KNIZw


      fait partie d’une « trilogie » pour prouver qu’il n’y a pas collusion entre les ONG et les trafiquants. C’est leur dernier travail.
      Voici où trouver tous les documents y relatifs :
      http://www.forensic-architecture.org/case/iuventa

      Pour les autres, il y a pas mal de documentation sur seenthis.

    • Non, sorry @unagi c’est moi qui me suis trompée...

      En fait ils ont utilisé le site blamingtherescuers (ton premier lien) aussi pour y mettre leur dernière analyse, celle de la #Iuventa.
      Je me suis trompée car « Blaming the rescuers » a été aussi le titre d’un de leurs rapports...
      #sorry