UNGA adepts global framework on International migration

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has officially adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The document is the first-ever negotiated global framework on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. It is meant to address issues that concern the world’s 258 million people on the move and countries of ..

Topics: Compact • Global Compact • Global Compact for Migration • Human migration • Marrakesh Treaty • Unga • United Nations • United Nations General Assembly

Marrakech venue of Intergovernmental Conference on Global Compact for Migration for year 2018

The Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was held in Marrakech, Morocco on 10th and 11th of December, 2018. It is the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. The global compact is non-legally binding. It is grounded in values ..

Topics: Academic disciplines • Bird migration • Compact • Cultural globalization • Global Compact • Global Compact for Migration • Human migration • Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration • International migration • United Nations

“Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” finalized recently

For the first time ever, United Nations Member States have agreed an all-encompassing “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” to better manage international migration, address its challenges, strengthen migrant rights and contribute to sustainable development.

Topics: Academic disciplines • Bali Process • Environmental social science • Global Compact • Global Compact for Migration • Human migration • International Organization for Migration • Sustainability • Sustainable Development

US withdraws from United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration

The United States has pulled out from the UN Global Compact on Migration as it does not meet the policies and principles of the Donald Trump administration. The US has been a part of the non-binding New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants since it was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2016. ..

Topics: Aftermath of war • Demography • Forced migration • Global Compact • Global Compact for Migration • Human migration • Presidency of Donald Trump • Refugee • Right of asylum • United Nations • Xenophobia