General Assembly Officially Adopts Roadmap
- Meetings Coverage - General Assembly Endorses First-Ever Global Compact on Migration, Urging Cooperation among Member States in Protecting Migrants — GA/12113
- Statement - UN Secretary-General on the Adoption
- UN News - General Assembly officially adopts roadmap for migrants to improve safety, ease suffering — 19 December 2018
- UNIFEED - Video - Floor Language - 00:03:31
General Assembly votes in favour of the GCM
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General Assembly officially adopts roadmap for migrants to improve safety, ease suffering 19 December 2018
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Implementing first-ever global migration pact must involve public and private sector push 13 December 2018
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Global Compact enables ‘safe, regular, orderly migration from Africa’: former Liberia President 11 December 2018
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Education ‘the key to social inclusion’ says Côte d’Ivoire refugee in Marrakech 10 December 2018
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Migrants are “the ultimate agents” of development worldwide 7 December 2018
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'No question' of migration Compact's positive benefits: Arbour 5 December 2018
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Cheryl Perera (OneChild) speaks on how youth is affected by migration - 11 December
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Meetings Coverage
Meetings Coverage highlights in English and French include meeting summaries and press releases on the Compact since the adoption of the New York Declaration in 2016.
General Assembly Endorses First-Ever Global Compact on Migration, Urging Cooperation among Member States in Protecting Migrants (GA/12113) 19 December 2018
Press Releases, Remarks & Briefings
11.12.2018
- Press Briefing - Statement by Louise Arbour, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration
- Press Release - World Leaders Adopt First-Ever Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration in Marrakech, Outlining Framework to better manage international migration
- Press Release - Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration - Plenary
10.12.2018
- Joint press encounter - Secretary-General António Guterres and Louise Arbour, Special Representativeof the Secretary-General for International Migration
09.12.2018
- Press Release - World Leaders meet in Morocco for the Adoption of the Global Compact for Migration
- Remarks by Secretary-General António Guterres on UN Network on Migration
- Remarks by Louise Arbour, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration
Photos
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UN Secretary-General (right) receives the gavel used at the Conference from the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the UN. At left is the SRSG for International Migration
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe - 19 December 2018 -
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Chairperson of the High-level Panel on Migration in Africa and former President of Liberia, photographed while being interviewed at the Conference
UN Photo/Mark Garten - 11 December 2018 -
Closing Ceremony of Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration
UN Photo/Karim Tibari - 11 December 2018
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