The Mediterranean remains the most fatal crossing, with over 17,900 people dying there
\nMonitoring desk
\nGENEVA
\nThe UN migration agency says migrant children have died or gone missing at the rate of at least one per day worldwide over the past five years, with treacherous journeys like those across the Mediterranean or the US-Mexico border continuing to take lives.
\nIn its latest \u201cFatal Journeys\u201d report, the International Organization for Migration has released findings that some 1,600 children \u2014 some as young as 6 months old \u2014 are among the 32,000 people who have perished in dangerous travels since 2014.
\nThe Mediterranean remains the most fatal crossing, with over 17,900 people dying there \u2014 many on the hazardous trip between Libya and Italy.
\nThe IOM also pointed to rising deaths every year along the US-Mexico border since 2014, totaling more than 1,900 over five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Mediterranean remains the most fatal crossing, with over 17,900 people dying there Monitoring desk GENEVA The UN migration agency says migrant children have died or gone missing at the rate of at least one per day worldwide over the past five years, with treacherous journeys like those across the Mediterranean or the US-Mexico border […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n