Forensic Oceanography’s Lorenzo Pezzani discusses the harmful impact of EU policies that attack NGOs conducting life-saving search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

To mark the publication of Humanitarianism: The unacceptable face of solidarity, the Institute of Race Relations’ (IRR) new research into the hostile political and legal environment facing humanitarian actors who seek to protect life at Europe’s sea and land borders, the IRR will hose a wide-ranging discussion of how EU policies are shrinking the space for humanitarian action while feeding the far Right.