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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
enhanced cooperation on international migration in all its dimensions, have adopted
this Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration:
Preamble
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This Global Compact rests on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations.
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It also rests on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 2 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 3 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights; 3 the other core international human rights treaties; 4 the
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 5 including the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking i n Persons, Especially Women
and Children, 6 and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and
Air; 7 the Slavery Convention 8 and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Simil ar to Slavery; 9 the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; 10 the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious
Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa ; 11 the Paris Agreement; 12 and
the International Labour Organization conventions on promoting decent work and
labour migration, 13 as well as on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 14 the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development; 15 the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; 16 and
the New Urban Agenda. 17
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Discussions about international migration at the global level are not new. We
recall the advances made through the United Nations High-level Dialogues on
International Migration and Development in 2006 and 2013. We also acknowledge
the contributions of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, launched in
2007. These platforms paved the way for the New York Declaration for Refugees and
Migrants, through which we committed to elaborate a global compact on refugees and
to adopt this Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, in two
separate processes. The two global compacts, together, present complementary
international cooperation frameworks that fulfil their respective mandates as laid out
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Convention on the Rights of
the Child, International Convention on the Protection of the R ights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families, International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance, and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574.
League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. LX, No. 1414.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 266, No. 3822.
Ibid., vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Ibid., vol. 1954, No. 33480.
Adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in
FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97), Migrant Workers
(Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143), Equality of Treatment (Social Security)
Convention, 1962 (No. 118), and Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189).
Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
Resolution 69/283, annex II.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
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