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Loading Most common nationalities of Mediterranean sea and land arrivals from January 2021

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Loading Sea and land arrivals monthly

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Loading Sea arrivals monthly

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Loading Land arrivals monthly

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News comment on search and rescue in the Central Mediterranean by Gillian Triggs, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

UNHCR, 01 May 2020

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for greater coordination, solidarity and responsibility-sharing, in view of the increased movements of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Despite the extremely difficult circumstances faced by many countries at present due to COVID-19, the prote... Read more

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Coronavirus: UNHCR offers practical recommendations in support of European countries to ensure access to asylum and safe reception

UNHCR, 27 Apr 2020

With the world mobilizing to combat the spread of COVID-19, many countries in Europe and beyond have adopted exceptional measures to manage their borders, limiting air travel and cross-border mobility. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called today on European countries to safeguard the many good pr... Read more

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Beware long-term damage to human rights and refugee rights from the coronavirus pandemic: UNHCR

UNHCR, 22 Apr 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has deepened the plight of people fleeing war, conflict and persecution. As countries battle to protect their populations and economies, fundamental norms of refugee and human rights law are at risk. “The core principles of refugee protection are being put to test – but peo... Read more

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Displaced and stateless women and girls at heightened risk of gender-based violence in the Coronavirus pandemic

UNHCR, 20 Apr 2020

Around the world COVID-19 is taking lives and changing communities but the virus is also inducing massive protection risks for women and girls forced to flee their homes, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Gillian Triggs, warned today. “We need to pay ur... Read more

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UN agencies welcome first relocation of unaccompanied children from Greece

UNHCR/UNICEF/IOM, 15 Apr 2020

IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund, today welcomed the relocation of 12 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from Greece to Luxembourg. The children, who had been living in overcrowded reception and identification cent... Read more

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Loading Total arrivals in 2023

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Loading Sea arrivals in 2023

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Loading Land arrivals in 2023

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Dead and missing in 2023 (estimate) JSON 
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Demography of Mediterranean sea arrivals from January 2022 JSON  .CSV 
Previous years Arrivals * Dead and missing
2022 159,410 2,439
2021 123,318 3,231
2020 95,774 1,881
2019 123,663 1,510
2018 141,472 2,277
2017 185,139 3,139
2016 373,652 5,096
2015 1,032,408 3,771

* Include sea arrivals to Italy, Cyprus, and Malta, and both sea and land arrivals to Greece and Spain (including the Canary Islands). Data are as of 31 December 2021 for all countries.

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Loading Routes towards the Central & West Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic

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