Today, we mark one year since the start of our mission to bring humanitarian and medical assistance to Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh. Read the statement from MOAS co-founder and director Regina Catrambone. One year ago, MOAS arrived in Bangladesh, following the desperate Rohingya exodus...
On Saturday, 30th of August 2014, the newly-launched Migrant Offshore Aid Station carried out its first rescue in the Mediterranean Sea. Two weeks later, our crew had rescued and assisted over 1,500 people in coordination with Italy’s Mare Nostrum mission. Four years on from that...
Joint press release from NGOs in Rohingya response in Bangladesh One year has passed since the beginning of the exodus of an estimated 706,000 Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh following what the top UN human rights official called a “textbook...
MOAS supports the concerns expressed by UNICEF Bangladesh. From the beginning of our mission in Southeast Asia to help the Rohingya community fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, MOAS has unceasingly highlighted how the inaction of the international community is especially dangerous for women and children. Between October...
With 40 people still trapped in limbo in the Central Mediterranean, MOAS calls on European governments to urgently agree and implement a coordinated, long-term strategy for disembarking and relocating migrants and asylum seekers. 40 people – reportedly from Bangladesh, Egypt, Libya, Mali and Nigeria – left...
MOAS raises serious concerns over the funding of essential services for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and its consequences during the monsoon season. The Joint Response Plan (JRP) for 2018 requested around 951 million US Dollars to fund everything from food security to flood protection. However, according...
I am deeply saddened by the recent news of a woman who barely survived, after clinging to the wreckage of a destroyed migrant boat off the Libyan coast. Another woman and a toddler, aged between three and five, were not so lucky and perished out...
MOAS joined a mobilization of European Solidarity on the 27th June, direct from Republic Street, Valletta. The call to action drew in support from over 2200 organisations and individuals, in more than 60 public squares all over Europe, MOAS joined them in unison, on the street and...
MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) has announced it has successfully completed its observation mission in the Andaman Sea in order to monitor maritime developments in the Rohingya refugee crisis. The mission was launched on April 3rd in response to confirmed reports of Rohingya attempting to flee Myanmar by sea in unsafe vessels. The MOAS...
MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) has successfully concluded the second week of its observation mission in the Andaman Sea, where M/Y Phoenix is monitoring maritime developments in the Rohingya refugee crisis. Having departed Sri Lanka on April 23rd, M/Y Phoenix has now covered 1,643 nautical miles...