According to official figures, at least 2,400 migrants lost their lives in the Mediterranean between July 2019 and December 2020, but this total must undoubtedly be revised upwards, says the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, in a report published on Tuesday 9 March. In it, she takes stock of the implementation by the organisation’s Member States of its Recommendation (2019) on rescuing migrants at sea. The assessment is “deplorable in terms of human...