International Migration and Development

A/RES/75/226View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 22b International migration and development, published in 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

18 versions · 1995–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/217

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/217	International migration and development	4,771	89%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/176	International migration and development	4,317	27%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/226	International migration and development	2,113	67%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/241	International migration and development	1,460	35%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/237	International migration and development	3,653	47%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

13 reports · 2004–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/282	International migration and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/217
2024	A/79/323	International migration and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/176
2022	A/77/236	International migration and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/226
2020	A/75/292	International migration and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/241
2018	A/73/286	International migration and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/237

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Conferences Coordination Within UN System International Migration Migration Policy

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;²⁰

²⁰A/75/292.

Recognizes the need to strengthen synergies between international migration and development at all levels, including the global, regional, national and local levels, as appropriate;

Calls upon Member States to take steps to support the full inclusion of migrants in the COVID-19 pandemic response and recovery efforts, in the spirit of international cooperation and in line with national policies, legislation and circumstances, based on shared responsibilities, including the obligation of States to readmit their own nationals, cognizant of the vulnerable situations of migrants and their contributions to the COVID-19 crisis response and recovery efforts, by, among others, ensuring full respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, promoting faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances by further developing existing conducive policy and regulatory environments that enable competition, regulation and innovation on the remittance market, providing gender-responsive programmes and instruments that enhance the financial inclusion of migrants and their families in order to end structural barriers to women’s equal access to economic resources, by 2030, reducing to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and strengthening bilateral, subregional, regional, interregional and multilateral cooperation to support the protection, well-being and effective and sustainable reintegration into labour markets of migrant workers in line with national policies, and in this regard recognizes the role of the United Nations Network on Migration, and the International Organization for Migration as its coordinator;

Recommits to ensuring full respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, and supporting countries of origin, transit and destination in the spirit of international cooperation, taking into account national circumstances;

Recalls the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, adopted at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 10 and 11 December 2018, and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 73/195 of 19 December 2018;

Notes that the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is the first intergovernmentally negotiated outcome, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, to cover international migration in all its dimensions;

Recognizes that the High-level Dialogues on International Migration and Development have served as forums to advance discussions on the multidimensional aspects of international migration and development in order to identify appropriate ways and means to maximize its development benefits and minimize its negative impacts;

Notes that, with the adoption of the Global Compact, the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development has been repurposed into the International Migration Review Forum, which will serve as the primary intergovernmental global platform for Member States to discuss and share progress on the implementation of all aspects of the Global Compact, including as it relates to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,²¹ and with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, and that the Forum is to be held every four years, beginning in 2022;

²¹Resolution 70/1.

Recalls the high-level debate on international migration and development held on 27 February 2019 under the auspices of the President of the General Assembly, in lieu of the 2019 High-level Dialogue, to inform the high-level political forum on sustainable development, which reviewed the Goals and targets relevant to migration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, taking into consideration the outcomes of other processes related to international migration and development;

Welcomes the decision of the Secretary-General to establish the United Nations Network on Migration;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, at its seventy-seventh session, a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-seventh session, under the item entitled “Globalization and interdependence”, the sub-item entitled “International migration and development”.

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