A decade has passed since the launch of the Missing Migrants Project, which has documented more than 63,000 deaths around the world among people fleeing conflict, persecution or poverty at home
More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the UN migration agency to start recording the number of people who died or went missing as they fled conflict, persecution or poverty to other countries.
A report by the International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project claims that migrant deaths have increased significantly since 2014.
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The report says the deaths are ‘likely only a fraction of the actual number of lives lost worldwide’ because of the difficulty in obtaining and verifying information