A decade of documenting more than 63,000 migrant deaths shows that fleeing is more lethal than ever
by Renata Brito and Kerstin Sopke
Mar 26, 2024
3 minutes
More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the U.N. migration agency to start recording the number of people who died or went missing as they fled conflict, persecution or poverty to other countries.
Governments around the world have repeatedly pledged to save migrants' lives and fight smugglers while tightening borders. Yet 10 years on, a report by the International Organization for Migration's
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