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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Baby dies after migrant boat capsizes in Channel

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9 months, 1 week ago

Over 63,000 Individuals Dead Or Gone Missing While Attempting Migration In Last Decade: IOM Report

Live Law

In a recent report released by the International Organization for Migration, a concerning trend has been brought to light: the escalating number of migrant fatalities occurring globally. Among the various migration routes documented in the report released by the International Organization for Migration, one corridor stands out as particularly perilous: the Mediterranean Sea route. Female Migrant Fatalities The data presented …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

The desert “erases people:” Volunteers try to count migrant deaths, but the true number is unknown

Salon

When Battalion Search and Rescue discovered the scattered, skeletal remains of another body in the desert at Organ Pipe National Monument earlier this year, founder James Holeman followed usual protocol, noting GPS coordinates and taking photos, as well as marking the area with fluorescent orange tape to help law enforcement later retrieve the unidentified remains. Although Border Patrol hasn’t publicly …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Editorial: Migrant deaths at Mexican detention center symbolize failed immigration policies

LA Times

Police officers carry an injured migrant following a fire that killed and injured dozens of migrants, in the immigration station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, on March 28. The deaths of at least 39 migrants at a Mexican detention center near the U.S.-Mexico border this week shows that immigration policies in Mexico and the U.S. are failing miserably in addressing …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Qatar says worker deaths for World Cup ‘between 400 and 500'

Associated Press

DOHA, Qatar — A top Qatari official involved in the country’s World Cup organization has put the number of worker deaths for the tournament “between 400 and 500” for the first time, a drastically higher number than any other previously offered by Doha. In the interview, portions of which Morgan posted online, the British journalist asks al-Thawadi: “What is the …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Explained: Why it is so hard to provide a death toll for Qatar’s migrant workers

New York Times

When the Qatar World Cup kicks off on Sunday, remember that this tournament is built on migrant labour. “They call deaths non-work related if they don’t know how they died,” Nick McGeehan, a founding director of FairSquare, who has researched migrant worker deaths across Gulf states for over a decade, tells The Athletic. It was not intended to be a …

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2 years, 6 months ago

I’ve reported on refugee crises in Iraq, Turkey and Greece. Here’s what you’re missing about the San Antonio deaths

The Independent

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3 years ago

No systemic mechanism for recording migrant deaths in district

The Hindu

In the first week of December alone, the deaths of four migrants were reported in the district. Ideally, there should be a district-level coordination committee of all stakeholders concerned to brainstorm over the various problems, not just their deaths, faced by the large migrant community,” said Benoy Peter, executive director, Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development, which started building up …

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3 years, 5 months ago

More migrant deaths recorded in heat along Arizona border

Associated Press

PHOENIX — The bodies of an unusually large number of migrants who died in Arizona’s borderlands are being recovered this summer amid record temperatures in the sun-scorched desert and rugged mountains. The nonprofit group Humane Borders, which maps the recoveries of bodies in Arizona using data from the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson, said 43 sets of human …

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4 years, 7 months ago

9 deaths reported on board migrant trains since Monday, Railways says most had underlying conditions

India Today

As extreme heat, hunger and dehydration add to the woes of returning migrant workers, nine passengers have been found dead in ‘Shramik Special’ trains since Monday and they included a woman whose toddler son was seen trying to wake her up in a heart wrenching scene at a railway platform in Bihar. The nine deaths on different trains heading to …

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