Media page: 'On this journey, no one cares if you live or die'

Sudanese asylum-seeker Yasir was illegally detained by a militia in Libya. Evacuated to safety in Niger, he checks his phone at UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism camp outside Niamey, May 2019.

Abuse, protection and justice along routes between East and West Africa and Africa’s Mediterranean coast

Hundreds of refugees and migrants are dying each year, and thousands more are suffering extreme human rights abuses, at the hands of smugglers, traffickers, militias and State authorities, on journeys from West and East Africa towards and inside Libya and Egypt.

In a new report – 'On this journey, no one cares if you live or die.' Abuse, protection, and justice along routes between East and West Africa and Africa’s Mediterranean coast – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the Mixed Migration Centre at the Danish Refugee Council are calling on States to take concerted action to protect and assist survivors of these barbaric abuses and to take greater steps to hold those responsible to account.

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For more information, please contact:

Mixed Migration Centre

In Geneva, Bram Frouws, [email protected], +41 79 889 54 39

UNHCR

In Geneva, Charlie Yaxley, [email protected], +41 795 808 702
In Tunis, Caroline Gluck, [email protected], +216 299 255 560
In Nairobi, Dana Hughes, [email protected], +254 733 440536
In Dakar, Romain Desclous, [email protected], +221 786 386 395
In Amman, Rula Amin, [email protected], +962 (0)790 04 58 49
In New York, Kathryn Mahoney, [email protected], +1 347 443 7646
In London, Laura Padoan, [email protected], +44 777 5566 127
In Paris, Céline Schmitt, [email protected], +33 6 23 16 11 78
In Rome, Federico Fossi, [email protected], +39 349 084 3461
In Rome, Barbara Molinaro, [email protected], +39 33 85 46 29 32
In Madrid, Maria Jesus Vega,[email protected], +34 670 661 263

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