The top United Nations official involved in the Organization's fight against illegal drugs and international crime said today how horrified he was when he first heard the news of migrants dying when their boats sank in the Mediterranean - "the latest reports of a tragedy seemingly without end."
"Since then," said Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), "thousands more migrants and refugees have died all over the world, on treacherous journeys to reach their destinations, often at the hands of criminal smuggling groups. We cannot let this situation continue."
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