2023 · Current AffairsPrevious Year Question
Q70.
Consider the following statement : 1. Recently, all the countries of the United Nations have adopted the first-ever compact for international migration, the 'Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM)'. 2. The objectives and commitments stated in the GCM are binding on the UN member countries. 3. The GCM addresses internal migration or internally displaced people also in its objectives and commitments. How many of the above statements are correct?
A. Only one
B. Only two
C. All three
D. None
Answer

D

Explanation

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular is the first intergovernmental agreement, under the auspices of the United Nations, to all dimensions of international migration in a and comprehensive manner. It was adopted at intergovernmental conference on migration in Morocco, on 10 December 2018. At the to adopt the text on 10 December, only 163 formally adopted it. Further, countries like were critical of it and refrained to adopt it in Hence statement 1 is not correct. Global Compact for Migration is the first-ever UN agreement on a common approach to migration in all its dimensions. The global is non-legally binding. Hence, statement 2 is correct. Global Compact enumerates 23 objectives for State bolstered by specific commitments, that seek to challenges related to today’s migration. The commitments and actions can be seen as a guide States to meet their human rights obligations when migration governance measures to reduce the and vulnerabilities migrants face at different stages migration and to create conducive conditions that all migrants to become active members of Key commitments include: evidence-based and human rights-based and public discourse on migration; the adverse drivers of migration, including poverty and discrimination and addressing and disaster-related displacement; migrants’ rights to information and to a legal and diversifying availability of pathways for orderly and regular migration, taking into account particular needs of migrants in situations of the right to decent work and other labour for migrants; and reducing vulnerabilities and human violations in the context of migration; the right to life in the context of migration; smuggling and trafficking while protecting human rights of those who have been smuggled or human rights at borders and conducting rights-based and individualized screening, and referral of migrants; the right to liberty and freedom from detention, including by prioritizing alternatives immigration detention; migrants’ rights to access basic services, health, education, and social support, without discrimination and combatting hate speech xenophobia; the prohibitions of collective expulsion and for all migrants, ensuring that returns are and dignified and reintegration is sustainable. statement 3 is not correct. option (d) is the correct answer.