During the fourth round of negotiations on the Global Compact on Migration, Global Coalition on Migration members across all regions raised targeted proposals on the inclusion of regular pathways into the Compact negotiations and text. Coalition members and civil society partners held a strategy workshop on prior to negotiations bringing together migrant networks, trade unions, and allies to discuss the challenges and opportunities of labour migration pathways and to develop a common strategy and concrete advocacy.
Thank you to Friedrich Ebert Stiftung -NY for hosting us.
Members of the Global Coalition on Migration, regional migrant network focal points, trade unions, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung staff from Berlin, Tunis and New York:
Our objectives included:
o Capacity building of networks on the Compact negotiations and in post-adoption
o Identify common language on labour migration, decent work, labour rights and
pathways
o Develop specific advocacy commitments to engage governments
o Formulate joint strategy