A/HRC/35/25 III. 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility A. Introduction 8. On 19 September 2016, the General Assembly held a high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants, at which the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (resolution A/71/L.1) was adopted. The Declaration establishes a two-year process leading to an international conference in 2018 at which two global compacts, one on refugees and the other for safe, orderly and regular migration, will be presented for adoption. The Special Rapporteur sees the adoption of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration not as the end of the process, but as the beginning. As part of the global compact, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to go beyond the Declaration and impulsive reactions on the basis of what they perceive to be the current problems and to develop a human rights- and evidence-based governance framework for international migration and mobility. 9. The Special Rapporteur takes note of the positive development of migration and mobility being discussed within the framework of the United Nations, which has resulted in the inclusion of migration-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals and the New York Declaration, in which States reaffirmed their commitments to the protection of the human rights of migrants and to the establishment of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. The Special Rapporteur stresses the importance of ensuring that the commitment of States to the protection of the human rights of migrants 1 is upheld and translated into the adoption of the global compact. 10. Taking into consideration the current dynamics of push and pull factors and in the light of his observations on the need to facilitate mobility, the Special Rapporteur suggests that the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration should include provisions on the development of a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility under the framework of the United Nations, in parallel to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 70/1). 11. The golden thread of such an approach would primarily be to address targets 10.7 and 8.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals through a rights-based, age- and gendersensitive plan. 12. The Special Rapporteur envisions an agenda that, building on target 10.7, outlines how human mobility can be facilitated effectively and underlines the importance of taking a long-term strategic approach to developing more accessible, regular, safe and affordable mobility policies and practices that will place States in a better position to respond to the significant demographic, economic, social, political and cultural challenges that lie ahead. 13. Given that the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration will be submitted for adoption in 2018, the agenda could be launched in 2020 following a two-year preparatory process. The agenda would encompass a modest but achievable number of universal goals aimed at protecting the human rights of migrants and facilitating mobility in the subsequent 15 years, with precise targets and indicators, realistic timelines and benchmarks and effective accountability mechanisms. 1 4 All references to migrants throughout the present report should be read as “migrants, regardless of their status or circumstances”.