Saving their lives is “a humanitarian imperative, a moral duty and a legal obligation,” recalls the organization on International Migrants Day.
Euskaraz irakurri: Azken zortzi urteetan bizitza hobe baten bila hil diren 51,000 migratzaileak oroitu ditu NBEk
The United Nations has commemorated this Sunday the International Day of Migrants with a memory for the at least 51,000 deceased who have left their lives on the dangerous migratory routes during the last eight years.
In 2020, more than 281 million people were international migrants, while more than 59 million people were living as internally displaced persons at the end of 2021.
“Migration is a powerful agent of economic growth, dynamism and understanding. However, when it is not regulated, when it occurs through more dangerous routes, the cruel kingdom of traffickers, the price it exacts is terrible,” said UN Secretary General António Guterres.
The UN also remembers thousands of disappeared on land and sea, each of them “a sister, a brother, a son, mother or father” before launching a plea for their human rights, which must be respected “without any type of discrimination regarding the conditions of their displacement, whether forced, voluntary or authorized”.
Migrants have proven to be a source of prosperity, innovation and sustainable development for countries of origin, transit and host countries, according to the UN.
The United Nations thus calls for doing everything possible “as humanitarian imperative, moral duty and legal obligation” to prevent any loss of life, while also drawing attention to the 22 million people who end up internally displaced annually by the climate crisis.
Source: Eitb
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