Re: Invitation for stakeholders (e.g. civil society, academics, youth…) to join a key UN stakeholder session with ILO and UNESCO on migration (28 Oct). UNESCO Bangkok will host a breakout session on “Investing in skills development and facilitating mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences”.
Please share further and do let me know if you can join the discussion.
– Wesley Teter, UNESCO (wr.teter@unesco.org).
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to our first stakeholder consultation on Wednesday, 28 October from 11:00-14:00 (ICT). The consultation, which we hope will be highly interactive, will address the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) Objectives 2, 5, 6, 12, 18 under the general clustering: “Ensuring that migration is voluntary, orderly and regular”.
Please fill in the registration form and return it by Sunday, 25 October (midnight ICT).
Please find attached a concept note, agenda and background PPT.
If you have any questions, please contact Klaus Dik Nielsen, Stakeholder Liaison on klaus.nielsen@un.org
We look forward to your active participation!
With kind regards,
ILO and UNESCO, on behalf of the UN Regional United Nations Network on Migration for Asia and the Pacific
Stakeholders welcome from:
Academia
Civil Society
Faith-based organisations
Local authorities and communities
Migrant and diaspora organisations
Migrants
National Human Rights Institutions
Parliamentarians
The International Red Cross Crescent Movement
The media
The private sector
Trade unions
Other: …
Objectives for safe, orderly and regular migration
1. Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence -based policies
2. Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
3. Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration
4. Ensure that all migrants have proof of legal identity and adequate documentation
5. Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
6. Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
7. Address and reduce vulnerabilities in migration
8. Save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants
9. Strengthen the transnational response to smuggling of migrants
10. Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration
11. Manage borders in an integrated, secure and coordinated manner Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration A/RES/73/195 18-22354 7/36
12. Strengthen certainty and predictability in migration procedures for appropriate screening, assessment and referral
13. Use migration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives
14. Enhance consular protection, assistance and cooperation throughout the migration cycle
15. Provide access to basic services for migrants
16. Empower migrants and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion
17. Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration
18. Invest in skills development and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences
19. Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
20. Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
21. Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
22. Establish mechanisms for the portability of social security entitlements and earned benefits
23. Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
https://www.iom.int/global-compact-migration
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