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82.
The global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration offers an
opportunity for better migration governance that enables States to develop clear,
long-term and evidence-based migration policies ensuring full protection of the
human rights of all migrants.
83.
The Special Rapporteur considers the global compact for safe, orderly and
regular migration, which is to be presented for adoption in 2018, as the beginning of a
long-term, 15-year agenda, complementary to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and aimed primarily at implementing targets 10.7 and 8.8 of the
Sustainable Development Goals. The objective is to provide States with short-,
medium- and long-term achievable goals and targets aimed at facilitating migration
and mobility and protecting the human and labour rights of migrants, as requested in
the 2030 Agenda.
84.
The long-term strategy would start in 2020, which could be designated as the
“International year for safe, orderly and regular migration for all”. The strategy
could be called the “2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility”. The Special
Rapporteur recommends the adoption of eight practical and achievable goals, with
appropriate targets and indicators, as his contribution to the 2035 agenda. He
acknowledges that these goals and targets could be further refined and must be
developed in full recognition of the challenges that States are facing in their
endeavour to establish a global framework for rights-based global migration
governance.
85.
The Special Rapporteur recommends a consultative process led by the United
Nations to further develop goals and targets. Such a process would include the
participation of experts, the business community, civil society organizations and
migrants themselves. It would build upon the principles and guidelines, supported by
practical guidance, on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable
situations within large and/or mixed movements developed by the Global Migration
Group. The guidance could form an important starting point for the development of
goals and targets, given that it is derived from existing obligations under international
law and is aimed at assisting States and other stakeholders with regard to the
refinement, strengthening, implementation and monitoring of measures to protect
migrants in vulnerable situations.
86.
The Special Rapporteur proposes that States also develop inclusive processes so
as to allow for national consultations that foster better understanding of and
adaptation to each goal, target and indicator, according to national contexts, taking
into account and carrying the voice of migrants in particular.
87.
A longer-term strategy will require long-term investment in order to ensure the
effective implementation and monitoring of all eight goals. The implementation of
such an agenda within the framework of the United Nations would require the
existing bilateral, regional and global cooperation mechanisms to be strengthened.
This would ensure accountability, monitoring and oversight, while creating a clear
link to the formal normative monitoring mechanisms established within the United
Nations.
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