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The Global Migration Compact Faces Challenges as the Final Countdown Begins
Kate Gough
June 19, 2018
It’s crunch time for the Global Compact for Migration. There has been progress. But greater advance on dialogue can mean greater deadlock on content. Several challenges now face the co-facilitators—Mexico and Switzerland—in charge of drafting the text. They echo the challenges...
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Linking US Foreign Aid to UN Votes: What Are the Implications?
Sarah Rose
May 04, 2018
The Trump administration has pledged to tie foreign aid more directly to countries’ United Nations (UN) votes, threatening to punish countries who vote against the US position by cutting their foreign assistance. While the administration’s harsh rhetoric marks a shift from the recent pas...
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The Global Compact Negotiations Have Started. What’s On the Docket for the Next Five Months?
Kate Gough
March 05, 2018
A small community around the world is building better ways to regulate migration. The Global Compact on Migration is not making headlines, but its effects will certainly ripple around the world and throughout this century.
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The Global Compact on Migration is Now Being Negotiated. Here are Three Sticking Points
Kate Gough
February 20, 2018
UN Member States are gathering today in New York at the United Nations Headquarters for the first round of negotiations on the Global Compact on Migration zero draft. It is a once-a-generation chance to shape migration cooperatively, for mutual benefit. Global migration governance is, in i...