Saving lives or shirking responsibility? – Scrutinizing “Operation Sophia”1

• Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
• 14/09/2016

According to IOM, up to June 2016 more than 2500 migrants have lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to flee hunger, persecution, and war. As an effort to fight the business model of migrant smugglers and save lives at sea, the EU has initiated EUNAVFOR Med, also known as Operation Sophia, in June 2015.