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GuidinG PriNciPlEs

2018.12.1International Journal of Refugee Law

DOI: 10.1093/ijrl/eez009

tlooto Summary

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration rests on core international human rights treaties and aims to regulate migration for sustainable development.

Abstract

2. It also rests on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the other core international human rights treaties1; the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air; the Slavery Convention and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery; the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification; the Paris Agreement2; the International Labour Organization conventions on promoting decent work and labour migration3; as well as on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the Addis Ababa Action Agenda; the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the New Urban Agenda.

Citation format

PRINCIPLES, GuidinG. Global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. International Journal of Refugee Law, 2018.