Rescue missions in the Mediterranean sea have saved at least 5 thousand 800 migrants form flimsy boats over the last weekend alone.
Tens of thousands of migrants - fleeing poverty and persecution - are paying large sums of money to be trafficked from the Libyan coast to reach European Union shores in hope of a better life.
Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.
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Acting Director of Amnesty International Europe, Iverna McGowan is calling for a full scale search and rescue operation in the high seas which goes all the way up to the Libyan coast.
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Acting Director of Amnesty International Europe, Iverna McGowan is calling for a full scale search and rescue operation in the high seas which goes all the way up to the Libyan coast.
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