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UN migration agency records over 4,400 migrant deaths worldwide in 2021

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that over 4,470 migrants have died in 2021 on their way across borders, exceeding last year's figures by more than 200."Despite repeated calls for concrete action to reduce the tragic loss of life during migration journeys worldwide every year, the death toll in 2021 has surpassed 4,470," the UN-affiliated agency said in a statement on Friday.Since 2014, the overall death toll has reached 45,400 migrants. Globally, the number of deaths in 2021 is already more than the 4,236 total recorded in 2020."COVID-19 has meant an unprecedented decrease in human mobility, but the Missing Migrants Project still documents deaths almost every day,'' said Frank Laczko, Director of IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), where the project is based."Dozens of states have committed to the Global Compact for Migration but very few have engaged on Objective 8 to 'save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing ..

53 migrants dead, 54 injured after cargo truck crashes in south Mexico

A cargo truck jammed with people rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge over on a highway in southern Mexico on Thursday, killing at least 49

First migrants returned under the reinstated 'Remain in Mexico' policy

US authorities sent the first two migrants back to Mexico on Wednesday under the reinstated Remain in Mexico policy

Mexico overhauls handling of migrants at south border to release pressure

Benjamn Villalta couldn't believe that a Mexican immigration office would open in the middle of the night to give him visaallowing them to move about Mexico and work.

France cancels talks with UK as migrant row tests fragile ties

Macron told Britain on Friday it needed to "get serious"

Johnson, Macron agree to step up efforts to prevent migrants' crossings

UK PM Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to prevent deadly crossings of the English Channel by migrants following the Wednesday fatal shipwreck in the Strait of Dover

Migrant boat capsizes in English Channel; at least 31 people dead

The UK-bound migrants died on Wednesday when their boat sank

EU plans sanctions against companies that help smuggle migrants

The European Commission has proposed targeted measures to hit transport companies that are said to have helped smuggle people into the European Union (EU) via Belarus, Commission President said

Angela Merkel asks Putin to intervene with Belarus over migrants

Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to intervene with Belarus over the migrant situation on that country's border with Poland

Germany remains EU's main migrant destination with 100,000 Annual Requests

Germany remains the most popular European destination for migrants, with more than 100,000 asylum bids recorded for nine years in a row, media said Sunday.

HC asks govts to reply to plea for electricity connection for Pak migrants

The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought replies from the Centre, Delhi government and Tata Power on a plea seeking electricity connection for nearly 800 Hindu migrants from Pakistan

US ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in Texas

The US plans to speed up its efforts to expel Haitian migrants on flights to their Caribbean homeland, officials have said as agents poured into a Texas border city

57 feared dead after boat capsizes off Libya coast: United Nations

Fifty-seven people have been presumed dead as boat carrying migrants has capsized off Libya, as per United Nations migration official.Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration, said the boat left the western coastal town of Khums on Sunday. There were at least 75 people on board, reported Al Jazeera.Eighteen people from the vessel were rescued and returned to shore on Monday, Msehli said.The survivors, who are from Nigeria, Ghana and Gambia, reported the vessel had stopped due to an engine problem, then capsized amid bad weather, Msehli said."According to survivors brought to shore by fishermen and the coast guard, at least 20 women and two children were among those who drowned," Msehli wrote on Twitter.The capsizing is the latest disaster in the Mediterranean Sea involving migrants and refugees seeking a better life in Europe, said Al Jazeera further.Monday's deaths came less than a week after some 20 people also drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, ...

Covid-19 pandemic: Tales of migrant workers betray a year of woes

Their lives thrown into disarray, they struggle with lack of aid, jobs and vaccine

CDC exempts unaccompanied migrant children from deportation at US border

Unaccompanied migrant children will be exempt from a ban on migrants seeking asylum at the US border, federal health officials have ordered

One-Nation-One-Ration-Card suffers from exclusion issues, say experts

Scheme does not embrace 100 mn people who are otherwise entitled to NFSA ration cards, but don't possess them simply because the list has not been updated since 2011

SC orders implementation of 'one nation, one ration card scheme' by July 31

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed states and union territories to implement the 'one nation, one ration card scheme' till July 31

Globalisation, old and new: What changing world order means for India

Globalisation is morphing as new agendas come into focus. These now drive action on climate change, taxation of global companies, tackling terrorism, sharing vaccines and the like, writes T N Ninan

UK minister Priti Patel to unveil US-style digital visas to count migrants

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to unveil a new US-style digital visa regime at the country's borders in order to measure immigration levels in and out of the country

'Survival is tough': SC asks govt to consider harsh realities of migrants

The top court also noted that it will pass order on facilitating transport of those who are willing to go back to their native places.