At the September 2016 high-level Summit for Refugees and Migrants, the UN General Assembly adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, which sets an ambitious agenda around protecting and sharing responsibility for refugees and migrants on a global scale. The international community has been called upon to translate these commitments into practice by developing the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration.
For this reason, a number of agencies came together to lead the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts. This initiative brings together UN agencies, civil society, human rights institutions, donors, and the private sector and is co-convened by Save the Children and Terre des Hommes. The initiative was designed to create a constituency of actors to support the translation of the commitments in the New York Declaration into action that genuinely protects children. The CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar to present the initiative to a broad audience and to gather feedback from webinar participants about how these global compacts can best serve children.
During this interactive webinar, which was originally hosted on Wednesday, March 22, Save the Children’s Daniela Reale and Terres des Hommes’ Ignacio Packer provided an update on the Initiative and its work to date with a view of exploring how its work would be catalytic to a broader action for the support of children’s rights in national, regional, and global processes. The International Organization for Migration’s Senior Policy Advisor to the Director General Michele Klein Solomon, provided an update on the process of development of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, and UNHCR’s Ellen Hansen, Senior Policy Advisor in the Assistant Commissioner’s Office, outlined the progress to date on the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework.
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