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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
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Thousands of migrants go missing or die each year along migration routes_
In 2018, United Nations Member
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States committed to
'save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants'
by
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adopting the Global Compact for Safe , Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). Four years and more than
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15,000 documented deaths later, efforts to provide a meaningful response to this ongoing human tragedy
cannot be put off any further:
As heads of the United Nations Network on Migration's Executive Committee,
the International Committee of
the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International
Related
Commission on Missing Persons;
we call on States to urgently assume collective responsibility to save lives
and prevent migrants from going missing or dying along migration routes and to search for and identify those
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