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London Students Help Migrant Rescue Mission in the Mediterranean

  • Submitted by: Christina McKelvie, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 15 June 2015
  • Motion reference: S4M-13517

That the Parliament congratulates the students from Middlesex and Kingston universities in London who, since May 2015, have been supporting the Migrant Offshore Aid Station and Médecins Sans Frontières in their efforts to rescue migrants at sea; notes that they have joined an international team of students from the UK, Botswana, Lithuania, Norway, South Africa, Spain and USA, which has been funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme; understands that the students, who are from the schools of law and media and performing arts at Middlesex and Kingston's science, engineering and computing faculty, recently participated in the rescue of up to 5,000 migrants by mapping the rescue efforts, handling logistics, translating information and filming people's stories; notes that they have also been on official visits to Malta and Sicily, including the Sicilian island of Lampedusa; understands that, in an address to Middlesex University, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Professor François Crépeau, argued that, in order to protect the rights of migrants, including refugees from Syria, Eritrea and Somalia, the real challenge facing Europe is not stopping, but rather managing, the flow of migrants, and congratulates the students on their initiative.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Colin Beattie, Roderick Campbell, Nigel Don, Linda Fabiani, Neil Findlay, John Finnie, Rob Gibson, Christine Grahame, Patrick Harvie, Adam Ingram, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Mike MacKenzie, Joan McAlpine, Mark McDonald, Stuart McMillan, Elaine Murray, Gil Paterson, Dennis Robertson, Kevin Stewart, David Torrance