Presented to the General Assembly on 5 December in New York, the United Nations Secretary-General’s 2024 GCM implementation report provides concrete steps to mitigate migrant deaths and disappearances, including ensuring humanitarian actors have access to those in distress and improving data collection on missing migrants.
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Since 2014, more than 70,000 migrant deaths and disappearances have been recorded, with 2023 marking the deadliest year on record —with at least 8,600 fatalities. Despite international commitments under the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), almost 40,000 migrant deaths and disappearances have been documented since its adoption.
In response, the first International Migration Review Forum Progress Declaration called on the Secretary-General, with support from the United Nations Network on Migration and other partners, to include actionable recommendations on missing migrants and provision of humanitarian support to migrants in distress in his third biennial report.
