‼️ 2024 is the deadliest year on record for migrants. The rising death toll highlights the need for safe, legal routes for people on the move.

🥀2024 is the deadliest year on record, with nearly 9,000 migrant deaths.   This global crisis needs action: safe, legal migration routes are the only solution.   iom.int/news/2024-dead…

You can see it clearly from this graphic. In the past 5 years, migrant deaths have risen sharply. Each number is a life. A lost one. #Migration can work for all, but only if we provide safe, legal routes & a holistic international response to this crisis. iom.int/ZpB

🚨 Deadliest year for migrants in Asia 🚨 At least 2,514 people died on migration routes in 2024—a 59% increase from 2023. These are preventable tragedies. Safe migration pathways are needed now. 🔗 roasiapacific.iom.int/news/2024-was-…

‼️ Tens of thousands have died fleeing homes destroyed by crisis. IOM's new report highlights that most people who die during migration left their country fleeing insecurity, conflict, disaster and other crises.

Nearly 3 in 4 migrant deaths occur while escaping countries in crisis. IOM calls for collective action to save lives.

🥀2024 was the deadliest year on record, with nearly 9,000 migrant deaths. 🎬Join us on 3 June for a IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 #docUNight and dive into #migration trends, search & rescue, and policy recommendations for mobilising to save lives. ✅Save your free spot bit.ly/IOM-doc

📊 Global migration data experts unite! 🌐#IFMS2025 | 📍 Malmö, Sweden | 📅 16-18 June 2025 50+ sessions on innovations, inclusion, climate mobility, displacement data, and more. Don't miss it➡️ oecd-events.org/ifms2025 Malmö universitet

🚨 Nearly 3 in 4 migrant deaths happen while fleeing crisis zones. IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 calls for collective action to #SaveLives 🎬 Join us UN City Copenhagen on 3 June for #docUNight ft. 'Until He’s Back' 🎟️ Save your free spot: bit.ly/IOM-doc #MissingMigrants #EndMigrantDeaths

🎬 Join us on 3 June for a #docUNight screening of 'Until He's Back' — a film capturing the plight of #migrants and the challenge of returning those who drown at sea. Discover more about IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳’s Missing Migrants Project & engage with experts 🎟️ Free Spot: bit.ly/IOM-doc

Missing Migrants Project IOM Data 'Right now, frankly, it doesn’t work. The case that we saw in the documentary is the best-case scenario. [...] Most countries have some kind of framework to identify a person. What they don't have is that transnational link.' – Julia Black IOM Data IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳

"We have documented more than 75,000 missing migrants across the world." 📊Since 2014, IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳's Missing Migrants Project tries to document the scale an issue that is not spoken about enough. #SaveLives #GlobalGoals #GCM IOM Data UN City Copenhagen United Nations Network on Migration University of Copenhagen Research

Ethiopia 🇪🇹 partners of the Missing Migrants Project Project met recently to discuss how to tackle the challenges faced by families of missing migrants, to share insights & strengthen efforts to save lives & provide support. Let’s keep working for safer migration! #MigrationMatters

2 confirmed deaths & 60 people missing after two shipwrecks off the Libyan coast. This year 743 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean. IOM renews its call for urgent, coordinated action. The cost of inaction is measured in human lives. iom.int/news/iom-repor…

A new UN Human Rights (UN Special Procedures) report urges states to prevent migrant disappearances. The latest Missing Migrants Project update shows the toll in crisis-hit countries. Learn more: 📄 ohchr.org/en/press-relea… 📊 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1098aa…

This week in Banjul, The Gambia and Switzerland are co-chairing the thematic meeting on Missing Migrants under the Rabat Process, supported by ICMPD and ICRC. IOM's Missing Migrants Project Project highlighted the need for better data to save lives and inform action.

📊In 2024, MENA recorded 3,488 migrant deaths/disappearances—40% of the global total. IOM’s new paper, led by IOM Regional Data Hub (MENA) on Missing Migrants Project proposes a Route-Based Approach to strengthen data and save lives. 👉ow.ly/2nyG50Ww22P