Ahead of the International Migration Review Forum 2022, we call on States to make concrete commitments and pledges to action, to mobilize efforts, to save lives and prevent migrants from going missing.
Thousands of migrants go missing or die each year along migration routes. In 2018, United Nations Member States committed to "save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants" by adopting the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). Four years and more than 15,000 documented deaths later, efforts to provide a meaningful response to this ongoing human tragedy cannot be put off any further.