Mediterranean Bounding Main Rescue
In the final iii years Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has carried out nearly 400 search too rescue operations inwards the Mediterranean Sea. Every twelvemonth thousands of refugees, many fleeing from violence, war, persecution too poverty inwards Sub-Saharan Africa, drown field trying to accomplish Europe via the Mediterranean. MSF has saved thousands of other refugees from suffering the same fate.
The MSF Search too Rescue interactive map shows the locations of all of MSF's rescues inwards the Mediterranean since 2014. The bulk of these ocean rescues get got taken house off the coast of Libya. The MSF says that "almost everyone rescued from this stretch of H2O has passed through Libya, where many of them get got been exposed to alarming levels of violence too exploitation".
More than 5,000 refugees died inwards 2016 trying to acquire to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea yesteryear Boat - Mapping too Documenting Migratory Journeys too Experiences is an international question project, led yesteryear the University of Warwick, which carried out 257 in-depth qualitative interviews with people who get got made this journey.
The projection has released an interactive story map which allows y'all to thought some of these migratory journeys on a map, field too learning nigh the private experiences of the people who really made the journeys.
Each of these private journeys are mapped to demo each phase of i refugee's migration from Africa to Europe. 'Back' too 'Next' buttons permit the user to follow each phase of the journeying made yesteryear the interviewed refugees. As the map updates the map side-panel too updates to supply information nigh the journey. This information includes the first-hand experiences of the private refugee too to a greater extent than full general information nigh the weather condition that refugees sense at the mapped locations.
15 Years: Fortress Europe is an animated map of migrant too refugee deaths inwards Europe over the final 15 years. The map uses information from the Migrant Files to demo where too when migrants get got died field trying to acquire to Europe, or field trying to motion around the continent.
As the map plays through the 15 years of information crimson markers are added to the map to demo the place of each migrant death. The map sidebar continually updates to demo details nigh each migrant decease too y'all tin click on private markers on the map to read to a greater extent than details nigh each of these deaths.
Since 2013 the Migrant Files has been maintaining a database of migrants who get got died inwards Europe or on their agency to Europe. The database lists to a greater extent than than 30,000 people who get got died trying to acquire to Europe since the twelvemonth 2000.
An interactive map on the Migrant Files website shows that a large proportion of these deaths hap inwards the Mediterranean, especially with migrants trying to cross from Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya & Tunisia to Italy.
The Silk squad has too created an interactive map from the Migrants' Files information examining the seat out of migrant deaths inwards the Mediterranean. Their map allows y'all to query the information nigh migrant deaths yesteryear year, place too crusade of death.
If y'all click on a map marking on the Fatal Migration Incidents inwards the Mediterranean map y'all tin read details nigh the mapped incident, including the seat out of casualties too the appointment of the incident.
The Migrant Map 2000-2015 is some other interactive map of the Migrant Files data, visualizing the seat out of dead or missing migrants across Europe too Africa. The map presents a really shocking motion-picture demo of the scale of this human tragedy.
You tin select markers on the map to acquire to a greater extent than nigh the private cases reported too nigh the source of the information. The map too includes an animated heat-map layer which helps to highlight some of the hot-spots for migrant deaths over the final 6 years.
