Alan Kurdi's death became a symbol of the global refugee crisis.
Alan, his older brother Ghalib and his mother Rihanna all drowned. Only his fatherAnger over this needless horror should have marked a turning point in how world leaders respond to the global refugee crisis, but today charities continue to warn no lessons have been learned.
A woman and child were found unconscious off the island of Samos hours before this in a separate incident. In the years since Alan’s death, some 20,000 lives and counting have been lost in the Mediterranean Sea. Roughly half have never been found, according to figures from theFurther data from UNICEF shows at least 289 children are known to have died at sea in the first six months of 2023 while attempting to reach Europe.Verena Knaus, UNICEF’s global lead on migration and displacement, stressed that the Mediterranean Sea is one of the deadliest migration routes in the world.
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