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.
By establishing organisations and networks to represent their interests in European politics, female migrants are amplifying their voices and dismantling barriers to women’s political empowerment.
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.
In the Pacific, a regional framework to address human mobility in the context of climate change could provide legal safeguards while also protecting the customary rights of climate migrants.
Human Rights Day 2016 is a call to action to step up and defend the rights of those at risk of discrimination or violence, to stand against intolerance and hatred, and act to promote human dignity and the values of compassionate societies.
