In the run-up to the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (30 August), EuroMed Rights, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) and the University of Chicago Law School Global Human Rights Clinic are publishing a report on missing and deceased migrants, approached from a legal perspective:
‘Legal Framework Concerning Migrants Travelling from Africa to South-Western Europe’
This report comes at a time marked by an increase in disappearances and deaths of migrants. According to the IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, 76,715 migrants have disappeared since 2014, including 32,519 in the Mediterranean region. A figure far below reality
The families and loved ones of victims, in their search for truth and dignity, still face great difficulties in asserting their rights, whether in the search for and identification of the missing or in the grieving pprocess. States still have very few legal instruments at their disposal to address these challenges, whether in terms of prevention, identification or search.
The study highlights gaps and inconsistencies in the implementation of the legal framework at the international, regional and national levels, and calls on States and international institutions to take urgent action to address them.