A/RES/73/195
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
enhance the security and predictability of low-value transactions by bearing in mind
de-risking concerns, and developing a methodology to distinguish remittances from
illicit flows, in consultation with remittance service providers and financial
regulators;
(e) Develop innovative technological solutions for remittance transfer, such
as mobile payments, digital tools or e-banking, to reduce costs, improve speed,
enhance security, increase transfer through regular channels and open up gender responsive distribution channels to underserved populations, including persons in
rural areas, persons with low levels of literacy and persons with disabilities;
(f) Provide accessible information on remittance transfer costs by provider
and channel, such as comparison websites, in order to increase the transparency and
competition on the remittance transfer market, and promote financial literacy and
inclusion of migrants and their families through education and training;
(g) Develop programmes and instruments to promote investments from
remittance senders in local development and entrepreneurship in countries of origin,
such as through matching-grant mechanisms, municipal bonds and partnerships with
hometown associations, in order to enhance the transformative potential of
remittances beyond the individual households of migrant workers at all skills levels;
(h) Enable migrant women to access financial literacy training and formal
remittance transfer systems, as well as to open a bank account and own and manage
financial assets, investments and businesses as means to address gender inequalities
and foster their active participation in the economy;
(i) Provide access to and develop banking solutions and financial instruments
for migrants, including low-income and female-headed households, such as bank
accounts that permit direct deposits by employers, savings accounts, loans and credits
in cooperation with the banking sector.
Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and
readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
37. We commit to facilitate and cooperate for safe and dignified return and to
guarantee due process, individual assessment and effective remedy, by upholding the
prohibition of collective expulsion and of returning migrants when there is a real and
foreseeable risk of death, torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
or punishment, or other irreparable harm, in accordance with our obligations under
international human rights law. We further commit to ensure that our nationals are
duly received and readmitted, in full respect for the human right to return to one ’s
own country and the obligation of States to readmit their own nationals. We also
commit to create conducive conditions for personal safety, economic empowerment,
inclusion and social cohesion in communities, in order to ensure that reintegration of
migrants upon return to their countries of origin is sustainable.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Develop and implement bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation
frameworks and agreements, including readmission agreements, ensuring that return
and readmission of migrants to their own country is safe, dignified and in full
compliance with international human rights law, including the ri ghts of the child, by
determining clear and mutually agreed procedures that uphold procedural safeguards ,
guarantee individual assessments and legal certainty, and by ensuring that they also
include provisions that facilitate sustainable reintegration;
(b) Promote gender-responsive and child-sensitive return and reintegration
programmes that may include legal, social and financial support, guaranteeing that
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