{"id":298891,"date":"2025-04-30T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=298891"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:12:31","slug":"over-72000-migrants-dead-disappeared-globally-since-2014-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=298891","title":{"rendered":"Over 72,000 migrants dead, disappeared globally since 2014: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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GENEVA, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 72,000 deaths and disappearances\u00a0have been documented along migration routes around the world in the past\u00a0decade, most of them in crisis-affected countries, the United Nations said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year saw the highest migrant death toll on record, with at least 8,938\u00a0people dying on migration routes, according to the International Organization\u00a0for Migration (IOM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These numbers are a tragic reminder that people risk their lives when\u00a0insecurity, lack of opportunity, and other pressures leave them with no safe\u00a0or viable options at home,” IOM chief Amy Pope said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report by her UN agency found that nearly three-quarters of all migrant\u00a0deaths and disappearances recorded globally since 2014 occurred as people\u00a0fled insecurity, conflict, disaster and other humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One in four were “from countries affected by humanitarian crises, with the\u00a0deaths of thousands of Afghans, Rohingya, and Syrians documented on migration\u00a0routes worldwide”, said the IOM’s Missing Migrants Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report said that more than 52,000 people died while trying to escape from\u00a0one of the 40 countries in the world where the UN has a crisis response plan\u00a0or humanitarian response plan in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope urged international investment “to create stability and opportunity\u00a0within communities, so that migration is a choice, not a necessity”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And when staying is no longer possible, we must work together to enable\u00a0safe, legal, and orderly pathways that protect lives.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Central Mediterranean remains the deadliest migration route in the world,\u00a0with nearly 25,000 people lost at sea in the past decade, IOM said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 12,000 of those had been lost at sea after departing from war-torn\u00a0Libya, with countless others disappearing while transiting the Sahara Desert,\u00a0the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 5,000 people died while trying to leave crisis-ravaged Afghanistan\u00a0in the past decade, many of them since the Taliban retook power in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And more than 3,100 members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority had\u00a0died during the period, many in shipwrecks or while crossing into Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Too often, migrants fall through the cracks,” warned Julia Black,\u00a0coordinator of IOM’s Missing Migrants Project and author of the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And due to data gaps – especially in war zones and disaster areas – the true\u00a0death toll is likely far higher than what we’ve recorded,” she said in the\u00a0statement. — NNN-AGENCIES\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GENEVA, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 72,000 deaths and disappearances\u00a0have been documented along migration routes around the world in the past\u00a0decade, most of them in crisis-affected countries, the United Nations said. Last year saw the highest migrant death toll on record, with at least 8,938\u00a0people dying on migration routes, according to the International Organization\u00a0for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":298892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,215,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298893,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298891\/revisions\/298893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}