Mediterranean
![CEAR The number of refugees in the world continues to rise.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/report_cear_0.jpeg?itok=A9_FBOBY&c=71fd105a292ae624204a81003aff1cd8)
The Spanish Commission for Refugees (CEAR) has presented the nineteenth annual report 'Refugees in Spain and Europe'.
![Òscar Camps - @Campsoscar Image shared by Oscar Camps on Twitter of the rescue carried out by Open Arms.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/oscar_camps.jpeg?itok=Oiq-n8S2&c=c63db7cb3ea9a88e4e7b4f4698163c4b)
Six people have died as a result of the shipwreck of a small boat in the Central Mediterranean, one of them a six-month-old baby, who had been urgently evacuated by the ship of the Badalona-based NGO.
![Cartas mojadas Òscar Camps, in a photogram of the film.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/cartas_mojadas_fotograma_1.png?itok=O1fug1dI&c=ca1532bfefc92010aad5bc75af1707a6)
Paula Palacios, the film’s director, joins the NGO on a tough mission to tell a story about life and death on the deadliest migratory route on the planet.
![Open Arms ship rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean Sea](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/_20180630144100-kh8e-u455380676138q-992x558lavanguardia-web.jpg?itok=acMdi04_)
Proactiva Open Arms has rescued more than 27.000 stranded migrants in Mediterranean Sea since 2016.
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From 24 to 26 May there will be a new edition of a campaign to clean up around 1,500 beaches in more than 20 countries around the Mediterranean.
![Òscar Camps in front of the Open Arms tied to the port of Barcelona on Monday.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/oscar_camps._el_periodico.jpg?itok=NUaUN7NC)
The director of this Catalan NGO, Òscar Camps, criticizes the "political decision" of the ship's blockage and announces mobilizations if it is not misleading.
![Golfo Azzurro sailed on 24 December / Photo: Oriol CanalsGolfo Azzurro](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/golfo_azzurro_parteix_la_nit_de_nadal_des_de_bcn._oriol_canals_0.jpg?itok=ADFX75dT)
The Catalan NGO, on a new and larger vessel than Astral, plans to rescue 35,000 people in the Mediterranean this winter, a figure that is similar to last year’s.
![Paula Farias, Operational Manager for the Mediterranean for MSF / Photograph: MSF](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/captura.jpg?itok=pb8_0_9s)
We have talked with Paula Farias, Operational Manager for the Mediterranean for MSF, about the present refugee crisis and the role that NGOs are playing in it.