Refugees
and Migrants Compact for Migration
UN
Summit 2016 New York Declaration
Conference
2018
At the
UN Summit, the world came together around one plan. Member States have reached
agreement by consensus on a powerful outcome document.
The
New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants expresses the political will of
world leaders to save lives, protect rights and share responsibility on a
global scale. At the UN Summit on 19 September, we expect to hear from world
leaders about how each country will implement these commitments. Refugees,
migrants, those who assist them, and their host countries and communities will
all benefit if these commitments are met.
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What
are the commitments?
The
New York Declaration contains bold commitments both to address the issues we
face now and to prepare the world for future challenges. These include
commitments to:
•Protect
the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status. This includes
the rights of women and girls and promoting their full, equal and meaningful
participation in finding solutions.
•Ensure
that all refugee and migrant children are receiving education within a few
months of arrival.
•Prevent
and respond to sexual and gender-based violence.
•Support
those countries rescuing, receiving and hosting large numbers of refugees and
migrants.
•Work
towards ending the practice of detaining children for the purposes of
determining their migration status.
•Strongly
condemn xenophobia against refugees and migrants and support a global campaign
to counter it.
•Strengthen
the positive contributions made by migrants to economic and social development
in their host countries.
•Improve
the delivery of humanitarian and development assistance to those countries most
affected, including through innovative multilateral financial solutions, with
the goal of closing all funding gaps.
•Implement
a comprehensive refugee response, based on a new framework that sets out the
responsibility of Member States, civil society partners and the UN system,
whenever there is a large movement of refugees or a protracted refugee
situation.
•Find
new homes for all refugees identified by UNHCR as needing resettlement; and
expand the opportunities for refugees to relocate to other countries through,
for example, labour mobility or education schemes.
•Strengthen
the global governance of migration by bringing the International Organization
for Migration into the UN system.
What will happen next?
The
New York Declaration also contains concrete plans for how to build on these
commitments:
•Start
negotiations leading to an international conference and the adoption of a
global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in 2018. The agreement
to move toward this comprehensive framework is a momentous one. It means that
migration, like other areas of international relations, will be guided by a set
of common principles and approaches.
•Develop
guidelines on the treatment of migrants in vulnerable situations. These guidelines
will be particularly important for the increasing number of unaccompanied
children on the move.
•Achieve
a more equitable sharing of the burden and responsibility for hosting and
supporting the world’s refugees by adopting a global compact on refugees in
2018.
The Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, will be held in Marrakech, Morocco on 10 and 11 December 2018.
The Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, will be held in Marrakech, Morocco on 10 and 11 December 2018.
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