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First, Save Lives: Solutions for the COVID-19 Pandemic and New Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees
April 7, 2020
Advocacy Action Committee COVID-19
Issued by a group of over 300 civil society organizations, including ICMC, on 7 April 2020. The statement urges governments worldwide to protect migrants and refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic and recommends ending detention, decongesting camps and saving lives.
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Statement of Civil Society on the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration in Advance of the Sixth and Final Round of Negotiations
July 9, 2018
Presented to UN Member States and the GCM Co-Facilitators (the governments of Switzerland and Mexico) in an informal dialogue in New York on 10 July 2018 by the Civil Society Action Committee. The statement urges States to pay special attention to issues such as non-refoulement, criminalization of migrants, and those who assist them and detention of migrant children. Nearly 180 organizations endorsed the statement.Statement
World Leaders Must Step up Efforts to Conclude Robust and Principled Deal for Refugees and Migrants
July 28, 2016
Issued by the self-organized civil society Action Committee, which includes ICMC, on 28 July 2016, the 65th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. The statement urges world governments to step up cooperation on responsibility-sharing solutions rather than on existing commitments, ahead of the September UN High-Level Meeting on Refugees and Migrants.Statement
A New Deal for Refugees, Migrants, and Societies
June 24, 2016
Issued by the self-organized civil society Action Committee, which includes ICMC, on 24 June 2016. The document offers a set of baseline recommendations to the UN Member States as they begin to discuss possible outcomes from the September UN High-Level Meeting on Refugees and Migrants.