India, Oct. 16 -- The IOM reports 4,400 child migrant deaths between 2014 and 2025, with many unrecorded due to data gaps.

Children face heightened risks during perilous journeys, often trapped in hazardous conditions, especially on sea crossings.

When they decide to leave their homes, they are, in effect, signing their own death certificates. Such is their desperation that thousands of migrants from dozens of countries risk treacherous sea crossings, navigate river-crossed tropical forests, and endure journeys of hundreds of kilometres crammed into trucks, all in search of one thing: a country that offers them a just life.

These migration routes across the world have turned into death trails. The International Organization for Migrati...