The Cutro shipwreck: urgent need for safe and legal routes – Regina Catrambone
Coffins of some of the 71 migrants who died when their boat sank off Italy’s southern Calabria region at the end of February. Photo: Alessandro Serrano / AFP
Sunday, February 26, just 150 metres off the Calabrian coast in southern Italy, a dramatic shipwreck caused the death of 71 people, including 15 children.The migrants were escaping from the destruction of war, violence and torture from countries like Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, travelling on a makeshift boat through extreme weather.According to EU...