[colombiamigra] Fw: Migration NewsDesk 19 April 2015

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Migration NewsDesk 19 April 2015 
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| Situation Report 002 | 19.04.2015 | |
| Migrant Deaths Soar as Mediterranean Sees Worst Tragedy in Living Memory
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| Wave of Migrants to Europe is “Not an Invasion” |
| IOM Director General William Lacy Swing tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour
that we're in a period of "unprecedented human disasters." Watch the full
interview |

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| Posted on Sunday 19 April 2015 Italy – IOM is calling for swift action
from the European Union following the worst tragedy in living memory involving
migrants crossing the Mediterranean from north Africa. Up to 700 migrants are
missing and feared drowned after the wooden fishing boat on which they were
crammed, capsized near Libya as a cargo vessel was coming to its aid. By late
Sunday night, one of the survivors was reported to have informed Italian
authorities that there may have been up to 950 on board. “The world needs to
react with the conviction with which it eliminated piracy off the coast of
Somalia a few years ago. All of us, especially the EU and world's powers can no
longer sit on the sidelines watching while tragedy unfolds in slow motion. Well
over 1,500 have drowned since the beginning of January.” IOM is asking the EU
to once again support life-saving operations on the scale of the Italian run
Mare Nostrum program shut down late last year on the grounds that it was
encouraging irregular migrants to take to the seas. Ambassador Swing pointed
to the success of the Task Force 120 that successfully got rid of Somali piracy
as an example for the EU to follow in both saving lives and preventing criminal
smuggling gangs from operating. Now read on |
| Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean: What can be done? |
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| ARRIVALS BY SEA IN ITALY (JANUARY - MARCH 2015) |
| Main Nationalities | # | Men | Women | Minors | AM | UAM |
| Gambia | 1,413 | 1,270 | 8 | 135 | 4 | 131 |
| Senegal | 1,187 | 1,143 | 1 | 43 | 1 | 42 |
| Somalia | 1,107 | 715 | 210 | 182 | 47 | 135 |
| Syria | 1,056 | 769 | 109 | 178 | 171 | 7 |
| Mali | 991 | 926 | 4 | 61 | 2 | 59 |
| Eritrea | 906 | 588 | 184 | 134 | 17 | 117 |
| Nigeria | 873 | 771 | 78 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| Total | 10,165 | 8,591 | 672 | 902 | 289 | 613 |

Posted on Friday 17 April 2015 By Carolina Montenegro and Kristy Siegfried
(IRIN) LAMPEDUSA/OXFORD, 15 April 2015 (IRIN) - With Italian authorities
rescuing 8,500 migrants in the Mediterranean over the weekend and reports up to
400 may have perished, there can be no doubt that an unprecedented summer surge
in migrant sea crossings is already under way. Now read on |
| Out Now: Migration Policy Practice (Volume V, Number 1, February–March
2015) |
| Posted on Friday 17 April 2015 For the latest issue of Migration Policy
Practice, which includes articles by the IOM Deputy Director General on
Changing Public Perceptions of Migration, Stefanie Grant on Migrant Deaths at
Sea, Khalid Koser and Katie Kuschminder on return and reintegration schemes,
the government of Australia’s innovative research programme on irregular
migration, and Jan Niessen on using indexes to measure migration policy. Now
read on |
| In the News |
| Posted on Sunday 19 April 2015 CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke with IOM
Director General Swing about the migrants coming to Europe and the situation in
the Mediterranean. The DG said that we are in a period of "unprecedented human
disasters and emergencies" and proposed multiple solutions. CNN’s Ben Wedeman
cited IOM estimates of 22,000 people who have died fleeing across the
Mediterranean since 2000. BBC reported that the shipwreck was caused by
excitement at the sight of rescuers and quoted IOM’s Joel Millman saying that
at least a third were women and children. Now read on |
| MissingMigrants.iom.int |
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