The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Thursday said over 2,500 people have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean so far in 2023 while trying to cross into Europe.
That’s lot more than 1,680 dead or missing migrants in the same period last year, reports DW.
Migrants and refugees "risk death and gross human rights violations at every step," Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the UNHCR New York office, told the Security Council.
This comes on the same day when European Union interior ministers met in Brussels to discuss how to handle people migrating to Europe by sea amid growing concern from member states Italy and Germany.
Member states and the European Parliament have been negotiating for years on far-reaching reforms to the bloc's common asylum system but without results.
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