{"id":1242,"date":"2015-04-14T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:53:48","slug":"humanitarian-group-launches-maritime-migrant-rescue-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/humanitarian-group-launches-maritime-migrant-rescue-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian group launches maritime migrant rescue mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders says it is launching a search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean next month amid faltering European Union efforts to cope with a migrant influx.<br \/>\nThe group will station doctors on a ship between Malta and the coast of Libya as the number of migrants making the crossing from the conflict-hit North African country increases.<br \/>\nDoctors Without Borders&#8217; head of humanitarian affairs, Hernan del Valle, said Monday that &#8220;we are acutely aware that we are only one boat. It&#8217;s a tragedy that Europe has turned its back on this problem.&#8221;<br \/>\nMore than 280,000 people entered the EU illegally last year. Thousands have boarded rickety boats from Libya, and Europe&#8217;s coast guards have been overwhelmed.<br \/>\nThe rescue operation will run until November.<br \/>\nAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders says it is launching a search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean next month amid faltering European Union efforts to cope with a migrant influx. The group will station doctors on a ship between Malta and the coast of Libya as the number of migrants making the crossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}