Nearly 8,000 people died or disappeared on migration routes last year, with sea routes to Europe the most deadly and many victims lost in “invisible shipwrecks”, a U.N. agency said on Tuesday.
“These figures bear witness to our collective failure to prevent these tragedies,” Maria Moita, who directs the International Organisation for Migration’s humanitarian and response department, told a Geneva press briefing.
Though the 7,904 people dead or missing was
