A record-high number of 8,565 migrants died worldwide in 2023, with the Mediterranean Sea crossing experiencing the largest increase. Most ...

Migrant crossings and deaths are increasing in the Mediterranean. Rescue NGOs are seeking tech tools, such as the One Fleet app and drones,...

Tragedy struck as 61 migrants went missing in a boat sinking off Libya's coast, presumed dead. The vessel, carrying around 86 individuals, ...

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citin...

All 34 migrants who endured two nights on the reef were rescued, said Federico Catania, a spokesperson for the Alpine assistance group whos...

Emergency raised the possibility that the migrants were brought back to Libya, the launching point for many of the smugglers' unseaworthy b...

The International Organization for Migration and humanitarian groups say passengers whose vessels are turned back by the Libyan coast guard...

At least 59 migrants, including a baby just a few months old, died after their overloaded boat sank early on Sunday in stormy seas off Ital...

Pushbacks are unlawful according to both international and EU law as they violate the right to seek asylum and a principle prohibiting the ...

MSF said the tanker did not respond to its calls not to return the migrants to Libya, where "they will almost certainly face detention, abu...

The death toll is higher than last year, but by no means unique. The International Organization of Migration estimates that 23,000 people h...

Meanwhile, a different coast guard vessel was headed to the port of Porto Empedocle on Saturday evening in Sicily with more than 350 migran...

More than 50 migrants have drowned or disappeared off the coast of Tunisia, while 33 others were rescued by workers from an oil platform, t...

Three people had died at sea before the arrival of the Louise Michel.

Around 14,000 people were taken off often flimsy vessels over the whole week, the UN and the coastguard said, and hundreds may have drowned.

One million migrants reached Europe by land and sea in 2015 fleeing conflicts and persecution, the UN refugee agency said today.

"The (deaths) are the result of a continuing failure of governance accompanied by a monumental failure of compassion," he said in a stateme...