UN report: one child migrant dies or goes missing every day in the world
About 1600 migrant children died or went missing in the period from 2014 to 2018 a year, that is, one child from among migrants and refugees dies or disappears daily. This is reported in the new report. International Organization for Migration (IOM)published on Friday.
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The IOM emphasizes that the report provides official information - the collection of data on migrant children is difficult, and the actual numbers can be much higher.
“We have no data on migrant children, their age, appearance or health status, it is very difficult for us to develop policies to protect them,” said IOM representative Frank Lacko.
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The organization reports that in the period from 2014 to 2018, 32 killed thousands of migrants in the year, more than half of them drowned in the Mediterranean. In Southeast Asia, the majority of the dead and missing migrants were Rohingya Muslims. The number of deaths on the border of Mexico and the United States has increased - over five years, almost 2 thousands of people died there.
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The IOM report was published just a few days after the world circled photo migrants from El Salvador, Oscar Ramirez, and his daughter Valeria, drowned in the Rio Grande River on the Mexican-American border. The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Faure, stated that the snapshot “should have shaken us all to the depths of the soul” and urged countries to do everything possible to protect migrants.
You can read the tragic history of the emigration of the dead from their home country and the attempts to find a better life in the USA here.
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