IOM

With no water or food, migrants are forced across the border at gunpoint in the searing heat.

The increase in deaths is thought to result from migrants taking more remote routes to avoid being caught.

Human rights abuses against migrants by traffickers and detention guards have been well documented in Libya, but new reports suggest the crisis is worsening.

Nearly 400 people have drowned trying to cross from Turkey to Greece by boat this year.

Half of the arrivals are fleeing war in Syria, according to the U.N.

The IOM estimates around 3,500 refugees have died while crossing the Mediterranean so far this year

Greece, Italy and Spain are straining under the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants.

Southeast Asian governments are scrambling to resolve the maritime migrant crisis.

A new Amnesty International report details the conditions that compel migrants in Libya to try to escape.

At least 24 people are dead after a boat believed to be carrying migrants sank near Turkey, adding to the more than 3,000 who have already died this year attempting to get to Europe by sea