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6.
Invites national human rights institutions compliant with the Paris
Principles 7 to register with the Secretariat in order to participate in the forums,
including the informal interactive multi-stakeholder hearings described in paragraph 15
below, and invites the institutions, as well as the Global Alliance of National Human
Rights Institutions and regional human rights institution networks, to submit inputs
prior to the forums;
7.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the expertise of the United
Nations system as a whole, including specialized agencies, funds and programmes,
related organizations and regional economic commissions, as well as all relevant
special procedures mandate holders and treaty bodies, in accordance with their
respective mandates, giving due regard to Geneva-based expertise, is coordinated to
support the State-led forums and to facilitate their participation therein;
8.
Encourages Member States to take into account, to the extent possible, a
whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach when composing their delegations
to the forums;
9.
Requests the Director General of the International Organization for Migration
(IOM), as Coordinator of the United Nations Network on Migration (the network), to
assist, upon request by Member States, in the preparation and organization of regional
reviews of the implementation of the Global Compact;
10. Invites relevant subregional, regional and cross-regional processes,
platforms and organizations, including the United Nations regional economic
commissions and regional consultative processes on migration, to review the
implementation of the Global Compact, within their respective regions, and to
contribute to the work of the forums, with the involvement of all relevant
stakeholders;
11. Invites also the Global Forum on Migration and Development, including
its civil society, business and mayoral mechanisms, to provide a space for informal
exchanges on the implementation of the Global Compact, and report the findings, best
practices and innovative approaches to the forums;
12. Invites forums such as the IOM International Dialogue on Migration,
regional consultative processes on migration and others to contribute to each forum
by providing relevant data, evidence, best practices, innovative approa ches and
recommendations as they relate to the implementation of the Global Compact;
13. Requests the network, in preparation for the forums, to collect all inputs
received from local, national, regional and global levels and to develop, as part of the
global knowledge platform, within existing resources, a dedicated website featuring
inputs submitted by Member States and other relevant stakeholders to the forums;
14. Requests the Secretary-General, as part of the biennial report preceding
each forum, drawing on the network, to provide guidance for the deliberations during
the forum, including the envisaged round tables and policy debate, and to make the
report available at least 12 weeks ahead of each forum;
15. Requests the President of the General Assembly to organize and to preside
over one day of informal interactive multi-stakeholder hearings one day prior to each
forum with all relevant stakeholders, as listed in paragraphs 4 to 7, and also requests
the President of the General Assembly to invite the representative of civil society to
present a summary of the hearings during the opening segment of the plenary;
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