Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
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To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Launch and publicize a centralized and publicly accessible national
website to make information available on regular migration options, such as on
country-specific immigration laws and policies, visa requirements, application
formalities, fees and conversion criteria, employment permit requir ements,
professional qualification requirements, credential assessment and equivalences,
training and study opportunities, and living costs and conditions, in order to inform
the decisions of migrants;
(b) Promote and improve systematic bilateral, regional and international
cooperation and dialogue to exchange information on migration -related trends,
including through joint databases, online platforms, international training centres and
liaison networks, while upholding the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(c) Establish open and accessible information points along relevant migration
routes that can refer migrants to child-sensitive and gender-responsive support and
counselling, offer opportunities to communicate with consular representatives of the
country of origin, and make available relevant information, including on human rights
and fundamental freedoms, appropriate protection and assistance, options and
pathways for regular migration, and possibilities for return, in a language that the
person concerned understands;
(d) Provide newly arrived migrants with targeted, gender-responsive, childsensitive, accessible and comprehensive information and legal guidance on their
rights and obligations, including on compliance with national and loca l laws,
obtaining of work and resident permits, status adjustments, registration with
authorities, access to justice to file complaints about rights violations, as well as
access to basic services;
(e) Promote multilingual, gender-responsive and evidence-based information
campaigns and organize awareness-raising events and pre-departure orientation
training in countries of origin, in cooperation with local authorities, consular and
diplomatic missions, the private sector, academia, migrant and diaspora org anizations
and civil society, in order to promote safe, orderly and regular migration, as well as
to highlight the risks associated with irregular and unsafe migration.
Objective 4: Ensure that all migrants have proof of legal identity and
adequate documentation
20. We commit to fulfil the right of all individuals to a legal identity by providing
all our nationals with proof of nationality and relevant documentation, allowing
national and local authorities to ascertain a migrant’s legal identity upon entry, during
stay and for return, as well as to ensure effective migration procedures, efficient
service provision and improved public safety. We further commit to ensure, through
appropriate measures, that migrants are issued adequate documentation and civil
registry documents, such as birth, marriage and death certificates, at all stages of
migration, as a means to empower migrants to effectively exercise their human rights.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Improve civil registry systems, with a particular focus on reaching
unregistered persons and our nationals residing in other countries, including by
providing relevant identity and civil registry documents, strengthening capacities, and
investing in information and communications technology solutions, while upholding
the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(b) Harmonize travel documents in line with the specifications of the
International Civil Aviation Organization to facilitate interoperable and unive rsal
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