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                   See PDF : Fatal-Journeys-Tracking-Lives-Lost-during-Migration-2014 &#160;IOM Releases New Data on Migrant Fatalities Worldwide: Almost 40,000 Since 2000 "IOM today (29/9/2014) released “Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost During Migration,” the world’s most comprehensive tally to date of migrant fatalities across land and sea. With a count surpassing 40,000 victims since 2000, IOM calls on all the world’s governments to address what it describes as “an epidemic of crime and victimization.” “Our message is blunt: migrants are dying who need not,” said IOM Director General William Lacy Swing, “It is time to do more than count the number of victims. It is time to engage the world to stop this violence against desperate migrants.” The research behind “Fatal Journeys,” which runs to over 200 pages, began with the October 2013 tragedy when over 400 migrants died in two shipwrecks near the Italian island of Lampedusa. The study, compiled under IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, reveals Europe as the world’s most dangerous destination for “irregular” migration, costing the lives of over 22,000 migrants since 2000, mainly on treacherous routes across the Mediterranean Sea. Besides counting fatalities, the Missing Migrants Project is part of a broader effort to use social media to engage communities around the world."  (...) http://reliefweb.int/report/world/fatal-journeys-tracking-lives-lost-during-migration