Migrants are crowded together on deck of the rescue ship "Eleonore" as it seaches for a safe port in the Mediterranean.

Migrants are crowded together on deck of the rescue ship “Eleonore” as it seaches for a safe port in the Mediterranean. The “Eleonore” took in the migrants on August 26, 2019 off the Libyan coast, as their boat was sinking © 2019 Johannes Filous/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Photo posted here from HRW’s article).

MILAN, Italy  (Human Rights Watch)* – Italy’s Democratic Party-Five Star Movement coalition government should revoke anti-asylum and anti-rescue measures held over from the previous government, Human Rights Watch on 31 January said.

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