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10th Global Forum on Migration and Development Opens in Berlin
Berlin, Germany — The annual Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) has opened with commitment from high level officials to advance global migration governance and leverage the development and economic benefits of migration.
With Germany and Morocco as the Forum’s current co-chairs, the three-day summit kicked off at Berlin’s Federal Foreign Office with remarks by Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel, and the Kingdom of Morocco’s Secretary General and Ministry Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Habib Nadir.
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IOM Director General tells GFMD: ‘Safe, orderly and regular migration is the migration we wish to have’
Germany – The UN Migration Agency (IOM) Director General, William Lacy Swing, has delivered remarks at the opening session of the Global Forum on Migration and Development today in Berlin, calling the Global Compact on Migration the next important milestone on the future of migration and a “rendezvous with history” that may not present itself again.
“The Global Compact on Migration invites the international community to move away from the reactive, unidimensional approaches to migration governance, and to reach consensus on a comprehensive framework which will enable migrants to move in a safe, orderly and dignified way,” Ambassador Swing told the Forum.
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“Only collective action and renewed cooperation based on shared responsibility and development can maximize the positive effects of migration on host countries, countries of origin and on migrants themselves.” – El Habib Nadir, Kingdom of Morocco’s Secretary General and Ministry Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Read more here.
Migration in the News
- Associated Press and Prensa Latina reported that nearly 8,900 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea during the last few days.
- Associated Press, Voice of America and several other media outlets reported that 51 migrants are presumed dead in the Sahara Desert in Niger after smugglers abandoned them during their journey north to Libya.
- UN News reported that IOM in Niger has saved more than 600 lives since April 2017 through a new search and rescue operation that targets migrants stranded in the Sahara Desert, but 52 did not survive.
- Reuters reported that Red Crescent volunteers recovered the bodies of 24 migrants on Tuesday that were washed up in an eastern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, as large-scale rescues were made in the Mediterranean.
- Reuters reported that three migrants died in the Mediterranean on Monday night, a German aid group said, during rescue operations in which thousands more were pulled to safety from rickety boats.
- AFP reported that three Syrians went on trial in German on Tuesday, accused of human trafficking after a boat that they allegedly used to smuggle people to Europe capsized and killed 13 people.
- Catholic News Service reported about Caritas Palermo, the first stop Italian authorities use for providing housing and hospitality to migrants in their first days upon reaching Sicily.
- Lebanon’s Daily Star reported that a boy traveled at least 230 kilometers from Morocco to Spain hanging underneath a bus, officials said Monday, in another example of desperate measures taken by migrants to get to Europe.
- Sustainable Brands reported that the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, a nonprofit coalition of electronics companies, is hoping to transform the labor market by eradicating the root causes of forced labor with the launch of the Responsible Labor Initiative.
Trending on the Internet
- The Conversation published an op-ed on how the things migrants send back home help them build a bridge across continents.
- Vice News reported from on board a Médecins Sans Frontières ship during a migrant rescue operation in the Mediterranean.
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