A scathing new Amnesty International report pins the climbing number of migrant deaths in the central Mediterranean on "failing EU policies."
So far this year, more than 2,000 migrants and refugees have died while trying to get to Europe, the report said. In 2015, the European Union strengthened a search and rescue program that prevented deaths in the Mediterranean, the report states, but now, the focus is on smugglers as they launch boats out of Libya. "European states have progressively turned their backs on a search and rescue strategy that was reducing mortality at sea in favor of one that has seen thousands drown and left desperate men, women, and children trapped in Libya, exposed to horrific abuses," the report said, adding that it's believed the Libyan coast guard is colluding with traffickers and abusing migrants.
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