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From ICPD to GFMD: Charting progress in international migration policy

From ICPD to GFMD: Charting progress in international migration policy. Dr. Colleen Thouez, Senior training and research adviser UNITAR New York 14 October 2010 GFMD Briefing Panel, UN Headquarters. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting Progress…. Outline

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From ICPD to GFMD: Charting progress in international migration policy

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  1. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting progress in international migration policy Dr. Colleen Thouez, Senior training and research adviser UNITAR New York 14 October 2010 GFMD Briefing Panel, UN Headquarters

  2. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting Progress… • Outline I-The migration regime: what is it and how has it come about? II-What the regime represents: where do we stand? III-Achievements and what lies ahead.

  3. The migration regime What is it and how has it come about?

  4. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting Progress… The migration regime • Governance: institutions and legal frameworks; • Common understandings: “housed” within; • Global human mobility= inter + intra migration; • The experience of regimes in other transnational areas; • International migration policy: 20 years of dialogue.

  5. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting Progress… History of dialogue: shaping in the 1990s • RCPs (IGC in 1986; Budapest in 1991; Puebla in 1996; Lima in 1999; ) • 1994: ICPD Chapter X “blue print” by States on international migration • First GA resolution on migration and development

  6. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting Progress… History of dialogue continued: 2000- • 2001: Berne Initiative to narrow in on a “blue print”; IAMM • 2002: Doyle Report, how can UN strengthen its role? • 2004-2005: GCIM • 2006: First UN HLD (next in 2013) • 2007-2010: GFMD1-GFMD4 • 2011: GA Informal thematic debate

  7. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting Progress… Outcomes of dialogue Institutionally: • Sustained inter-state dialogue; • Greater visibility within UN; • Stronger UN coordination (via GMG); • Global reach of regional discussions (via RCPs). Legally: • Consolidation of IML and its dissemination; • Growing recognition of certain common understandings?

  8. What the regime stands for Where do we stand in our understanding?

  9. From ICPD to GFMD: Charting Progress… Common understandings • Migration as a choice; • Mutual responsibility; • Capacities, coherence and cooperation. Areas for further progress: • Migrants rights are human rights: issue of undocumented; • Necessity of mainstreaming migration into development planning.

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