More than 72,000 migrants died, disappeared globally since 2014: United Nations

Geneva: In the last decade, more than 72,000 deaths and disappearances have been done with migration routes worldwide, in most of them, in countries affected by crisis, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) last year, at least 8,938 people saw the record for the most migrant deaths on migration routes.
IOM chief Amy Pope said in a statement, “This number is a tragic reminder that people leave insecurity, opportunity, and other pressures with no safe or viable options at home, when people put their lives at risk.”
The United Nations agency report found that about three-fourths of all Migrant deaths And due to disappearance globally since 2014, people fled from insecurity, conflict, disaster and other humanitarian crises.
The report by missing IOM’s missing migrants stated that one in four “from countries affected by human crises, thousands of Afghans, Rohingya and Syrian people, were documented on migration routes worldwide.
The report stated that more than 52,000 people died while trying to escape from one of the 40 countries in the world, where the United Nations has a crisis reaction plan or human response plan.
The Pope urged international investment “to create stability and opportunities within communities, so that migration is an alternative, not a requirement”. “And when it is not possible to live, we should work together to enable safe, legal and systematic routes to protect life.”
The IOM said that the Central Mediterranean world remains the deadliest migration route, about 25,000 people lost in the sea in the last decade. The report said that more than 12,000 people were lost in the sea after departing from war -torn Libya, in which countless other people had disappeared while crossing the Sahara Desert.
In the last decade, more than 5,000 people died while trying to quit Afghanistan, who have increased from the crisis, many of them brought back power in 2021.
And more than 3,100 members of Myanmar persecuted Rohingya minority died, during this period, in many ships or while crossing in Bangladesh.
“Many times, migrants go through cracks,” said Julia Black, coordinator of the IOM’s missing migrants and author of the report.
“And due to data gaps – especially in war areas and disaster areas – the right death toll is likely that we have more than what we have recorded,” he said in the statement.