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07/07/2015at 10:38

UN agencies take new step to help refugees at sea

Along with two other UN agencies, the IMO has launched a collective database which will help monitor the smugglers behind the large flows of migrants on the oceans.
Photo: Francesco Viviano/AP/POLFOTO/arkiv
BY LOUISE VOGDRUP-SCHMIDT

Three UN agencies, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), have launched a new database aimed at collecting information on the human smugglers and on the ships used for boat refugees, as well as about the massive flows of refugees at sea.

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