Knowledge Platform

This side event will highlight and discuss the role of children and youth in the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration, and the importance of consulting, collaborating, empowering and engaging them as change agents in ways that enhances their ability to participate in innovation and

This interactive virtual event seeks to provide an overview of the progress, challenges, and suggestions going forward on 15 out of the 23 objectives of the GCM. Discussions will encourage the identification of opportunities for further progress and cooperation.

UN-Habitat, IOM and UNHCR propose to establish a dialogue with mayors and civil society from different cities in Latin America on the role cities can play in the inclusion of refugees and migrants.

The Venezuelan exodus is impacting Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at a magnitude and speed never seen before. Since 2015, over 6 million people have left Venezuela, making it the second largest migration crisis in the world.

This side event is a unique opportunity to show how Member Countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (RCM), one of the oldest and most active regional consultative processes (RCPs) in the world, use the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) to identify regional

The event seeks to promote joint learning about initiatives that are being promoted by NHRIs to protect the rights of migrants, with a particular focus on gender and childhood.

The high recruitment fees and related costs incurred by migrant workersto access jobs abroad are serious impediments to migrants’ enjoyment of human and labour rights and migration development outcomes.

This side meeting will provide a space for States and other stakeholders to exchange experiences on working to end child immigration detention, and to hear from others working on this issue, including an advocate with lived experience of immigration detention, a presentation by the International

The event aims to discuss the different regional experiences of the several vaccination strategies where the approach of people on the move and migrant people where or where not included, towards the fostering of future experiences sharing between governments, international cooperation, and academia

The Global Compact for Migration (Global Compact), adopted in 2018, is a significant commitment from governments to take a people centered and human rights-based approach to migration policy and to work together towards the achievement of its objectives.

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) contains a promise of participatory processes expressed in its emphasis on a people-centred, human rights based and whole-of-society approach to migration policy4 .

Caritas Internationalis (CI) and its partners will host a 75 minute long hybrid side event during the UN’s International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) both in person at the United Nations Church Center and broadcast live to Zoom, allowing for virtual participation so that all participants of the

This panel will focus on portable justice, the right and ability of migrants to access justice at all stages of migration.

Policy discussions on migration and development focus mostly on host and origin countries.