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Migration

Photo: Doro refugee camp, in Maban, South Sudan. Credit: ©FAO/UNHCR Albert Gonzalez Farran

By Jaya Ramachandran

NEW YORK (IDN) - While migration has throughout history been a driver for development, the cost becomes too high when people find that leaving their homes is their only alternative, according to FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva.

"Migration should be an act of choice, and not a desperate last resort," Graziano da Silva said during the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants on September 19.

Bolstering the opportunities that allow rural people in developing countries to remain at home is a critical component of any plan to tackle the contemporary migration crisis,

UN INSIDER

Photo: IOM Prepares for Expected Mosul, Iraq Displacement. Credit: IOM

By Jaya Ramachdandran

BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – The forthcoming UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants on September 19 in New York would launch a process of intergovernmental negotiations leading to the adoption of a 'Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration'.

The intergovernmental negotiations, which will begin in early 2017, are to culminate in an intergovernmental conference on international migration in 2018 at which the Global Compact would be presented for adoption.

As the Third High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development is to be held in New York "no later than 2019", the draft under consideration pleads for envisaging a role for the High Level Dialogue in the process.

UN INSIDER

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