Essays about: "Civil search and rescue"

Found 3 essays containing the words Civil search and rescue.

  1. 1. Rule of Flaws : Challenges to Revitalizing the International Legal Protection of Search and Rescue Humanitarian Aid Workers Facing Criminalization in the Mediterranean

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Annachiara Ruzzetta; [2023]
    Keywords : Criminalization; policing humanitarianism; search and rescue; humanitarian aid workers; Mediterranean Sea; legal protection;

    Abstract : In the latest years, European governments have increasingly criminalized providing support to displaced people. Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGO) carrying out life-saving search and rescue (SAR) activities in the Mediterranean Sea have been facing wide obstacles in aiding newcomers, and in many instances have been subject to criminal proceedings. READ MORE

  2. 2. Criminalisation and obstruction of civil SAR activities : The impact of Decree-Law No. 1 of January 2, 2023, and the distant port policy on civil SAR activities in the Central Mediterranean Sea

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Stephen Schrezenmeier; [2023]
    Keywords : Civil search and rescue; Central Mediterranean Sea; obstruction; criminalisation; humanitarian space;

    Abstract : In January 2023, the newly elected right-wing government led by Giorgio Meloni approved Decree-Law No. 1/2023 which restricts the work of civil Search and Rescue (SAR) organizations, with the aim to reduce the flow of people reaching the country's shores. READ MORE

  3. 3. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and remote sensing in search and rescue missions in Sweden

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : ioannis ioannidis; [2018]
    Keywords : UAV Drones;

    Abstract : This paper gives a thοrοugh lοοk in the use οf Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in search and rescue missiοns. The οbjective is tο identify, thrοugh a literature review, all types οf UAV, the available remοte sensοrs that can be mοunted in a UAV and what type οf data each sensοr prοvides, the methοdοlοgy οn flight planning and what is the regulatοry framewοrk, guidelines and limitatiοns, οf UAV flight in sοme οf the biggest cοuntries wοrldwide and in specific fοr the Eurοpean Uniοn and Sweden. READ MORE