Thread: Death toll of Migrants increases

Death toll of Migrants increases

Tope Alabi September 12, 2017




The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Monday that the real number of migrant deaths were far higher than the numbers reported.

The UN Migration Agency in a new report on migrant deaths and disappearances worldwide through its Berlin-based Global Migration Data Analysis Centre said many migrants deaths were never recorded.

“Since 2014, more than 23,000 migrant deaths and disappearances have been recorded globally by the IOM. The real number is likely to be much higher as many deaths are never recorded,” IOM said.

The report is the third volume in IOM’s Fatal Journeys series, which focuses on how to improve data on missing migrants in order to prevent further deaths, and to enable the families left behind to learn more about the fate of their relatives.

“Many families continue to spend years living in limbo, not knowing whether a loved one is alive or dead as so few bodies of missing migrants are identified,” the UN migration agency said.

Fatal Journeys Volume 3: Improving Data on Missing Migrants is published in two parts with part one of the report released on Monday, examining the challenges of collecting data on missing migrants.

Part two of the report to be released in November, provides in-depth regional analysis of the data currently available, IOM said.

The first chapter of Fatal Journeys Volume 3 – Part 1 provided an update of data on global migrant fatalities since 2014, and highlighted the risks faced by migrant women and children.

Data collected by IOM’s ‘Missing Migrants Project’, the only existing database on migrant deaths at the global level, are used to present the known number and profile of dead and missing migrants in different regions of the world.

The report said that much more could be done to gather data to increase identification rates such as developing intraregional mechanisms to share data more effectively.

One approach highlighted in the report was the work of forensic teams in Latin America, which had been working together with NGOs and governments to promote the sharing of data to facilitate the identification of missing migrants.

The report underlined that the problems in communicating data could also be observed in global media coverage of migrant deaths and disappearances.

“Current standards of media coverage vary widely, and the tone of the content ranges from humanitarian concern to reproduction of negative narratives about migration,” the UN migration agency said.

It said the inclusion of migration in the United Nations’ 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development and the commitment of States to promote safe, orderly and regular migration, required improved data on indicators of “unsafe migration”.

Improving information and reporting on who the missing migrants were, where they came from, and above all, when they were most at risk was crucial to building a holistic response to reduce the number of migrant deaths, IOM said.

Death toll of Migrants increases

All the more reason to stay in your own country rather than look for free living elsewhere. The migrants are nasty too.

"It said the inclusion of migration in the United Nations’ 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development and the commitment of States to promote safe, orderly and regular migration, required improved data on indicators of “unsafe migration"

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Defund the UN and boot them off our soil. Go to Geneva and set up shop.

We do NOT want these people...they must not abandon their land...are you people nuts!

How about a 2030 GLOBAL AGENDA for Global Population Control and stop people having 10 kids living in poverty? That would solve 99% of their problems.

Do not dump these people on the backs of others.

They have land, they have resources...put them to work on their soil.

The reason for pushing all the refugees an illegals in to the US is to dilute our culture, overwhelm law enforcement, welfare system. In other words, to break us.

Is it the same with other countries?

Why are they moving people from Africa. Africa is a rich continent. Why would it not be better, if they really wanted to help, to give some aid to these people so they could better their own lives.

That's assuming their lives are so bad at home - a concept, I'm not truly buying in all cases.

Mexico is in a win-win situation. It reduces the population, and they send back tons of money that is then spent in Mexico. Truly parts of Mexico are poor, but it's isn't all cardboard shacks like they want us to believe.

Also, we are paying for educating their people. Some will return willingly/intentionally, some may (may) be deported. If they do return, however, many will have have education and skills they have learned in the US.

But I don't understand why it is a world wide movement?