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We were born as a Working Group in the Major Group for Children and Youth for the purpose of facilitating youth participation in the newly established Global Compact on Migration (GCM). After participating in the last 6 months of consultations for the GCM in 2018, and organizing a Youth Forum at the adoption conference of the GCM, we have been leading youth engagement in the follow-up and review of the GCM including through the UN Network on Migration and IMRF.
We have participated in the last 6 months of negotiations for the GCM in New York, and organized a Youth Forum during the GCM Adoption Conference in Marrakech. We also promote the presence of young speakers, panelists, and interventions at all events, including Regional Reviews and UN Network Listening Sessions.
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YOUTH FORUMS
Of our annual Youth Forums we have organized one linked to the adoption of the GCM in 2018, allowing young people to consult and prepare for their participation in government and other stakeholders’ discussion and spaces
We participate in multiple UN Network thematic working groups including
Alternatives to Detention, Labour, and Access to Services.
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ALTERNATIVE TO DETENTION WG
We contribute to the UN Network onMigration’s Alternatives to Detention WG co-led by UNICEF, UNHCR, and IDC
We mobilize young people’s participation in their national GCM reviews through promoting consultations in collaboration with local civil society, governments, and the UN.
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is the culmination of over 18 months of intensive consultations and negotiations, involving governments and other actors including civil society and the private sector. It is the first-ever global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions.
The Global Compact for Migration represents a historic opportunity to improve international cooperation on migration, and to strengthen the contribution of migrants and migration to sustainable development. Though it is not legally binding, the GCM outlines a cooperative framework for better managing migration at local, national, regional and global levels. It compiles principles, rights and obligations from existing international law instruments regarding migration, and identifies best practices in all areas of migration.
MYCP is part of the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) – the official, formal and self-organised space for children and youth (aged below 30) to contribute to and engage in certain intergovernmental and allied policy processes at the UN since 1992. Our mission is to bridge children and youth and the UN system, with a focus on migration issues, in order to ensure that their right to meaningful participation is realised. We do so by engaging children and youth entities in formal and informal forms in the design, implementation, monitoring, follow-up and review of sustainable development policies at all levels in four areas: Policy & Advocacy, Capacity Building, Youth Action and Knowledge.
