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International migration

International Migrants Day 2021: Harnessing the potential of human mobility

On 4 December 2000, the General Assembly, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world, proclaimed 18 December International Migrants Day (). On that day, in 1990, the Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families ().听

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Briefing for Member States on substantive reports in preparation for the forty-ninth session of the Commission on Population and Development

Overview

The special theme for the forty-ninth session of the Commission on Population and Development, which will take place during 11-15 April 2016, will be 鈥淪trengthening the demographic evidence base for the post-2015 development agenda鈥. In preparation for the Commission, this meeting will brief member states on the substantive reports.

Provisional Agenda

Opening remarks

  • Dr. Mwaba Patricia Kasese-Bota, Zambia

Presentations

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First High-level Dialogue on international migration and development

The first-ever plenary session of the 缅北禁地General Assembly on migration issues opens 14 September at the United Nations in New York, with a focus on ways to maximize the development benefits of migration and to reduce difficulties.

鈥淲e are only beginning to learn how to make migration work more consistently for development,鈥 Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report prepared in anticipation of the meeting. 鈥淓ach of us holds a piece of the migration puzzle, but none has the whole picture. It is time to start putting it together.鈥

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