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Act now to save lives and prevent migrants from going missing
Act now to save lives and
prevent migrants from going
missing
March 2022
Joint News Release
Reading time: 5 min (1327 words)
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Thousands of migrants go missing or die each year along migration routes. In 2018, United
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Nations Member States committed to "save lives and establish coordinated international efforts
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missing migrants" by adopting the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
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(GCM):
Four years and more than 15,000 documented deaths later; efforts to provide a
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meaningful response to this ongoing human tragedy cannot be put off any further