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STORY: UN / MIGRANTS DEATHS US MEXICO BORDER
TRT: 0:44
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 4 AUGUST 2017, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters
4 AUGUST 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson in the press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General:
“Our colleagues at the UN Migration Agency IOM today said that migrants crossing the United States-Mexico border are dying at a faster rate in 2017 than in past years. According to the agency’s Missing Migrants Project, some 232 migrant fatalities have been recorded this year, an increase of 17 per cent compared with the 204 deaths recorded between January and July of this year…of last year.”
4. Cutaway, reporters
5. Wide shot, press room
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) issued a report today saying that migrants crossing the United States-Mexico border are dying at a faster rate in 2017 than in past years.
In a statement read by the United Nations Spokesperson Stephan Dujaric today (4 Aug) in New York, the IOM reported in its Missing Migrant Project that “some 232 migrant fatalities have been recorded this year, an increase of 17 per cent compared with the 204 deaths recorded between January and July of of last year.”
According to IOM, over 7,700 migrants around the world lost their lives while migrating in 2016. 5,098 of these deaths occurred in the Mediterranean, which has seen a devastating spike in deaths in the past two years.
The Missing Migrants Project tracks deaths of migrants and those who have gone missing along migratory routes across the globe. The research behind the project began following two shipwrecks off the coast of Lampedusa in October 2013, in which nearly 400 migrants lost their lives.
The Missing Migrants Project collaborates with various government and non-government entities to collect data, and also draws on media and other available sources of information.
In 2016, IOM recorded a total of 400 migrant deaths on the US-Mexico border.
