7 hours agoUN: Over 72,000 dead or missing immigrants in the last decade
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(a year ago)More than 72,000 deaths and extinctions have been documented along world migration routes over the last decade, most in countries affected by the crisis, the United Nations Organization said on Tuesday. Last year marked the highest ever recorded number of deceased migrants, with at least 8,938 persons [...]
Last year marked the highest ever registered number of deceased migrants, with at least 8,938 people losing their lives along migration routes, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
“These figures are a tragic reminder that people risk life when uncertainty, lack of opportunity and other pressures leave them without safe or lasting elections in their country”, said IOM Director Amy Pope.
The UN agency's report found that nearly three quarters of all deaths and disappearances of registered migrants worldwide since 2014 occurred as people fled from uncertainty, conflicts, disasters and other humanitarian crises.
One in four were “from countries affected by the humanitarian crisis, with thousands of deaths of Afghans, roelings and Syrians documented along migration routes around the world”, the IOM's IOM report said.
The report stresses that more than 52,000 people lost their lives while trying to flee one of the 40 countries in the world where the UN has a crisis response plan or humanitarian action plan.
Pope called for international investment “to create stability and opportunity within communities so that migration can be a choice, not a necessity”.
And when the stance [in the homeland] is no longer possible, we should work together to enable safe, legal and fair ways that protect the lives of”, she said.
The Central Mediterranean remains the world's deadliest migration route, with nearly 25,000 people lost in the sea over the past decade, the IOM said.
More than 12,000 of them have been lost at sea after they were launched by war - torn Libya, while countless others have disappeared during transit through the Sahara Desert, according to the report.
More than 5,000 people have lost their lives while trying to flee Afghanistan, destroyed by the crisis over the last decade, many after the return of the ruling Taliban in 2021, reports REL.
And more than 3,100 members of the persecuted Ringa minority from Myanmar have died during this period, many of them in shipwreck or during the Bangladesh crossing.
Very often, migrants are forgotten”, warned Julia Black, project co-ordinator for the IOM's Missing Migrants and author of the report.
And because of lack of data, especially in war zones and disaster-hit regions, the actual number of victims is likely to be much higher than we have recorded”, she said. /Periscope/
