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Migration is getting riskier even as progress is made

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 891 words · By Othman Belbeisi
Migration Policy and Safety Humanitarian Crisis in MENA Global Compact for Migration
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What to know about Migration Policy and Safety

Migration is getting riskier even as progress is made The Global Compact is working, but shifting routes are making journeys more dangerous.

Claims checked 12
Techniques found 2
Topics 3

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What happened

Migration is getting riskier even as progress is made The Global Compact is working, but shifting routes are making journeys more dangerous.

Why it matters

As governments gather in New York for the second International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) to assess progress on global migration commitments, a central question looms: is the Global Compact for Migration improving conditions for people on the move?

Common ground

Adopted in 2018, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is the first international agreement aimed at making migration safer and more humane through cooperation.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing loaded language helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.
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Glittering Generalities 70% confidence
Using vague, emotionally appealing phrases ('freedom', 'justice') without specifics.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing glittering generalities helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “At the peak, the number of internally displaced people more than tripled, reaching more than 11.5 million.”
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Multiple sources confirm the peak of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan reached approximately 11.5 million, including a UNICEF report mentioning a January 2025 peak and a quarterly report from December 2024.
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web search NEUTRAL — As of December 2024, Sudan remained the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, with approximately 11.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). This total includes those displaced prior to …
https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/quarterly-report-internal…
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web search NEUTRAL — Three out of every five displaced Sudanese are children. This represents a 17 per cent decrease from the January 2025 peak of 11.5 million, largely due to 2.6 million spontaneous returns in eight stat…
https://www.unicef.org/appeals/sudan
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web search NEUTRAL — Over 11 million people were internally displaced in Sudan at the end of the year 2024, due to escalating civil war and violence. It is the highest number ever recorded for a single country by the IDMC…
https://www.statista.com/chart/35613/countries-with-the-most…
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Claim 2: “The Western African Atlantic Route to the Canary Islands recorded a dramatic 62 percent drop.”
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One web search result explicitly states that arrivals via the Canary route decreased by 62% according to the Ministry of the Interior. However, no second independent source was found to corroborate this specific percentage.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Its purpose was to secure a m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_expedition
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cape Town International Airport (IATA: CPT, ICAO: FACT), and sometimes abbreviated to CTIA, is the primary international airport serving the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It is the second-busiest …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_International_Airpor…
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Claim 3: “Movements from Asia and the Pacific to Europe increased significantly in 2025, with nearly one in three irregular arrivals originating from that region.”
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No evidence was gathered or provided for this claim.
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Claim 4: “Nearly 4 million people have returned home... but almost 9 million remain displaced.”
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No evidence was gathered or provided for this claim.
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Claim 5: “Adopted in 2018, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is the first international agreement aimed at making migration safer and more humane through cooperation.”
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Wikipedia and OHCHR confirm the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was adopted in December 2018 as an intergovernmentally negotiated agreement under the UN to cover all dimensions of international migration.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is an intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, that describes itself as covering "a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Compact_for_Migration
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Global Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to an international pact or treaty; in more specific cases it may refer to: United Nations Global Compact, a non-binding United Nations pact of bu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Compact
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was a United Nations conference held on 10–11 December 2018 in Marrakech. The purpose of the confer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Conference_t…
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Claim 6: “In 2025, just more than 66,500 people reached Italy and Malta via the Central Mediterranean Route”
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While evidence mentions the Central Mediterranean route and specific numbers for Bangladeshi citizens in 2025, there is no evidence provided that confirms the total number of arrivals to Italy and Malta was 'just more than 66,500' for the year 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago 80 km (50 mi) south of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Malta is an island in Southern Europe. It is the largest and most populous of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese Archipelago and the country of Malta. The island is situated in the Me…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(island)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic with a substantial Romance superstratum, and share a common …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_people
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Claim 7: “Arrivals to Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria along the Eastern Mediterranean Route fell by about 30 percent”
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The search results for this claim returned irrelevant information about San Diego airport arrivals and general information about Cyprus and Greece, but no data regarding a 30% decrease in arrivals along the Eastern Mediterranean Route in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, located off the coast of the Levant mainland in West Asia. The island of Cyprus, which is the third l…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, romanized: elliniká [eliniˈka] ; Ancient Greek: ἑλληνική, romanized: hellēnikḗ [helːɛːnikɛ́ː]) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic branch …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks (Turkish: Kıbrıs Türkleri or Kıbrıslı Türkler; Greek: Τουρκοκύπριοι, romanized: Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conques…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Cypriots
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Claim 8: “On the Eastern Mediterranean Route, deaths and disappearances nearly doubled in a single year.”
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Evidence discusses deaths on the Eastern Mediterranean route for 2022 and general surges in 2024, but does not provide data to confirm that deaths 'nearly doubled' between 2024 and 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea leading up to and resulting from the European migrant crisis with recent migration also linked to developments such as the A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_migrant_vessel_inciden…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Mediterranean Sea ( MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is an intercontinental sea situated between Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — According to the United Nations, human smuggling is defined as "the procurement, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit, of the illegal entry of a person int…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea_migrant_smug…
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Claim 9: “on the Central Mediterranean Route, more than 1,300 people are known to have died in 2025”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'more' and local news from California, which are completely irrelevant to migration deaths in the Mediterranean.
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web search NEUTRAL — Examples of more in a Sentence Adjective I felt more pain after the procedure, not less. The new engine has even more power. You like more sugar in your tea than I do.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more
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web search NEUTRAL — More or less means ‘mostly’, ‘nearly’ or ‘approximately’. We use it in mid position (between the subject and main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb).
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/more
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web search NEUTRAL — Updated May 6, 2026 12:49 PM More in Latest Local Dunkin’ Donuts sets opening date for first shop in Merced. Where will it open? Published 4 hours ago
https://www.mercedsunstar.com/
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Claim 10: “The region has one of the world’s youngest populations, with youth unemployment often exceeding 20 percent.”
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Claim 11: “In New York this week 130 states from all over the world are engaging in driving forward implementation of the Global Compact”
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Claim 12: “Three years after the conflict erupted in April 2023, Sudan has become the world’s largest displacement crisis.”
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Multiple independent sources (Africa Renewal, ReliefWeb, and UN) confirm that the conflict in Sudan began in April 2023 and has resulted in the world's largest displacement crisis.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sudan is now facing the world’s largest displacement crisis. Since the conflict began in April 2023, an estimated 14 million people have been forced from their homes, both within Sudan and across its …
https://africarenewal.un.org/en/magazine/three-years-war-sud…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sudan is facing the world's largest displacement and hunger crisis as the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which began in April 2023, approaches the…
https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/sudan-crisis-situation-an…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sudan descended into chaos in April 2023 when fighting erupted between the national army (Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This occurred after months of tension between …
https://www.rt.com/africa/638818-sudan-worlds-largest-displa…
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