Past Events
20 May 2022The role of National Human Rights Institutions in the GCM implementation with a view in Human Rights, gender and childhood
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. GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF THE GLOBAL COMPACT THAT...
20 May 2022The Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund:Turning commitments into reality
The President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, and the United Nations Network on Migration, will co-organise a side-event on the Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund (Migration MPTF) in the margins of...
20 May 2022Upholding the human rights guiding principle in the Global Compact for Migration
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration(GCM) rests on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international human rights instruments. At its core, the GCM recognizes that safe, orderly and regular...
20 May 2022ASEAN Framework on Protecting the Rights of Children in the Context of Migration
The proposed side-event will support the discussions of the International Migration Review Forum by providing an original, sub-regional perspective on how to advance the implementation of the Global Compact with a particular...
19 May 2022Collecting migration data: empowerment or domination? Collecting and using migration-related data, while protecting personal data of migrants
This side-event aims to reflect and increase awareness about the importance of migrants’ privacy when implementing Objective 1 of the GCM (collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based...
19 May 2022Cross-regional collaboration between Africa and Arab regions to accelerate the GCM implementation
Since the Regional Reviews were divided in the five United Nations regions and did not comprise of cross-regional components on potential collaboration across regions to accelerate the GCM implementation, The side event will...
19 May 2022Future Agenda for Global Diaspora Engagement: Paving the way to achieving Objective 19 through regularisation and further inclusion
This side-event aims to share with the wider audience the Dublin Declaration and to encourage more countries to adhere to the ambitious Agenda of Action that the Declaration sets out. The presentation will be followed by a...
19 May 2022Preparedness for the Next Pandemic: Towards a Resilient Global Architecture on Borders and Health
Over two years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down cross-border mobility, most countries are rapidly re-opening for travel. Yet there has been no global stock-taking on whether border and mobility policies worked in...
19 May 2022Tracking recruitment costs: scaling up efforts to measure SDG 10.7.1 to monitor SDG and GCM progress
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 is also...
*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).