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UNITED for Intercultural Action
Fortress Europe
 Europe/ Mediterranean
Name of organization/ institution International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Missing Persons
Europe/ Mediterranean
World
Region
Annex Area covered
All people dying trying to enter Europe. These include, for instance, those who die while crossing the Mediterranean and those who die in Africa who are presumed to be on their way to Europe.
Deaths occurring en route to destination and attributable directly or indirectly to immigration policies once in destination. These include those whose bodies are found and those missing and presumed to be dead.
1870
Start
European borders, Mediterranean, North Africa, Mayotte
End
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
Period
1 November 1988
European 1 January borders (external 1993 and internal), Mediterranean, North Africa, Mayotte
Dead and missing persons Global as a result of armed conflict or a situation of internal violence; not focused on migrants specifically.
Included in count
Sources
Families, direct witnesses, government authorities and any other sources to help identify, track, report, and reunite missing people and families. Reports each Data is generally collected through incident media, own research, discovered. information received from the 550 network organizations in 48 countries, and from local experts, journalists and researchers. Reports each Media reports. incident discovered.
Records each incident discovered. Data available on request.
Frequency
Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost during Migration
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