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A huge thank you to everyone who has taken part in today's twitter storm highlighting the issues raised in this report, giving those that died a context and an identity, and calling for #SafePassageNow

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Special thanks to our report partners @Migrantpptlond1 who helped fund and initiate the report through contact with @legisti based in France, who wrote an earlier French-language version. Please follow both of them to keep in touch with their vital work.

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Thanks to @legisti for coordinating the documentation of the many deaths due to border controls and for giving us the results of this report. Special thanks to Maël Galisson.

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As part of today's #SafePassageNow twitter storm starting now, we will be highlighting some of the many cases like Niknam's.

Read his story and the many others 🔽
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The importance of counting and accounting for deaths at the border was recognised by Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering, who in their 2011 book 'Globalisation and
borders: death at the global frontier' insisted on the importance of first, finding out as much as possible... 1/3
about the lives of those who died seeking safety, security, family or a better life, to re-humanise the people behind the statistics; and second, showing that the deaths are not ‘natural’ or ‘tragic accidents’ but man-made... 2/3 Image
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