To address environmental degradation, including climate change, it is essential to account for human rights and migration using an approach based in hybrid international law and regional thinking.
As we strive to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, the experience of Brazil could offer guidance on how to improve access to antiretroviral drugs in developing countries.
Among the concerns regarding migrants’ access to primary healthcare, less attention has been given to their mental healthcare needs. States’ responsibility to provide mental healthcare to migrants — and to remove barriers to healthcare in general — must be at the centre of migration policy reform.
Beyond basic protections, many displaced people today face grave dangers because they defy the legal parameters used by policymakers to define them as a migrant or a refugee, and to determine the rights they are entitled to.
As UN Member States begin the process of developing a global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration, they must put special focus on protecting the rights, risks and motivations of migrant children.
