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Sanjana Varghese

NGOs lament ‘human cost’ of Italy’s push to curb refugee arrivals

In 2022, more than 2,000 migrants and refugees were feared drowned or missing, according to the IOM's Missing Migrants project. [Faras Ghani/Al Jazeera]

New legislation passed by the Italian government earlier this year to curb undocumented migration to Italy has been slammed by search-and-rescue organisations working on the Mediterranean who say the move will increase deaths in the region.

On January 2 this year, the Italian government passed a raft of legislation aiming to deliver on one of the conservative party’s key election promises on migration.

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