IRAP Comment on Climate-Related Danger and Missing Migrants to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants

On December 13, 2024, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) submitted a comment to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on climate-related danger and missing migrants in response to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants’ call for input on the phenomenon of missing migrants. Additionally, IRAP submitted a second report with partners that you can read about here.

The submission on climate-related danger focuses on environmental factors and examines how climate change and restrictive immigration policies contribute to migrant deaths and disappearances in the Americas. Drawing on findings from IRAP’s ongoing data collection project on environmental challenges faced by people on the move, the submission details how state-imposed barriers to border and asylum access force migrants and displaced people into hazardous terrain, where the intensifying impacts of climate change exacerbate the dangers of transit. It concludes with recommendations to strengthen protection measures.

The comment “Climate-Related Danger and Missing Migrants” is available here.