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After the 'migration crisis': focus on search and rescue in the Mediterranean

After the 'migration crisis': focus on search and rescue in the Mediterranean
The rescue ship Eleonore sails on the Mediterranean with around 100 migrants on board. | Johannes Filous/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
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a State party has an obligation to respect and to ensure the rights under article 6 of all persons who are within its territory and all persons subject to its jurisdiction, that is, all persons over whose enjoyment of the right to life it exercises power or effective control. This includes persons located outside any territory effectively controlled by the State, whose right to life is nonetheless impacted by its military or other activities in a direct and reasonably foreseeable manner.
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Cameron Thibos

Cameron Thibos is the managing editor of Beyond Trafficking and Slavery. He is a former research associate at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and holds a D.Phil from the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. 

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