Links: UN Agencies and International Organizations Initiatives

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• Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW)

The CMW is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families by its State parties. It held its first session in March 2004.

• Global Commission on International Migration

The Global Commission on International Migration was launched by the United Nations Secretary-General and a number of governments on December 9, 2003 in Geneva. It is comprised of 19 Commissioners, is independent and was given the mandate to provide the framework for the formulation of a coherent, comprehensive and global response to the issue of international migration.

• Global Migration Group (GMG)

The Global Migration Group (GMG) is an inter-agency group bringing together heads of agencies to promote the wider application of all relevant international and regional instruments and norms relating to migration, and to encourage the adoption of more coherent, comprehensive and better coordinated approaches to the issue of international migration.

• International Labor Organization (ILO)

The ILO is the only United Nations agency with a constitutional mandate to protect migrant workers, and this mandate has been re-affirmed by the 1944 Declaration of Philadelphia and the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

• The International Migration Policy Programme (IMP)

The International Migration Policy Programme (IMP) seeks to strengthen the capacity of Governments to manage migration and to foster regional and international co-operation towards orderly migration and the protection of migrants.

• International Organization for Migration (IOM)

IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.

• OECD – Migration
• Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
• UNDESA International Migration Report
• UN Initiatives on International Migration
• UNESCO News Focus: Migration
• UNESCO International Migration and Multicultural Policies
• UNITAR Migration and Development

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