BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados is being represented at the four-day Second International Migration Review Forum, which gets underway at the United Nations in New York later on Tuesday.
Home Affairs and Information Minister, Gregory Nicholls, is leading the Barbados delegation to the Forum that serves as the primary intergovernmental global platform for United Nations (UN) member states to discuss and share progress on their implementation, to date, of all aspects of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Activities will include four interactive multi-stakeholder roundtables, a policy debate, and a plenary session, during which discussions will focus on the 23 objectives of the GCM, challenges in implementing them, capacity-building mechanisms, and contemporary and emerging issues related to migration.
The Forum will also consider possible guidance for the UN system to strengthen its efforts to improve system-wide effectiveness and coherence, and to support member states in implementing the GCM.
A government statement said that Nicholls will present a three-minute statement to the General Assembly during the policy debate on the island’s migration policy.
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