Theme 2015 : " I am a Migrant ".
Tema del 2015: «Soy un Migrante»
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| Worldwide #IamaMigrant Candlelight Vigil to Remember Lost Migrant Lives |
But 2015 was also a year in which the global community underscored the important contribution of migrants to sustainable development. With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, world leaders vowed to protect the labour rights of migrant workers, combat transnational criminal human trafficking networks, and promote well-regulated migration and mobility. By addressing root causes, the 2030 Agenda also seeks to tackle the development, governance and human rights challenges that are driving people to flee their homes in the first place.
The world urgently needs to build upon these efforts with a new global compact on human mobility based on better cooperation among countries of origin, transit and destination, with enhanced responsibility sharing, and full respect of the human rights of migrants, regardless of their status.
We must expand safe channels for regular migration, including for family reunification, labour mobility at all skill levels, greater resettlement opportunities, and education opportunities for children and adults. I also urge all countries to sign and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; only one-fourth of UN Member States have done so.
These principles and ideas will be part of the implementation of the roadmap to address the large movements of migrants and refugees that I have presented to the General Assembly.
On International Migrants Day, let us commit to coherent, comprehensive and human-rights based responses guided by international law and standards and a shared resolve to leave no one behind.
Ban Ki-moon
To mark this year’s International Migrants Day on December 18, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is calling on the international community to come together and remember the refugees and migrants who have tragically lost their lives this year.
IOM invites the international community to hold the first global Candlelight Vigil to commemorate the lives that have been lost or have disappeared while trying to reach safe harbour after arduous journeys across seas and deserts this year. Each person has a name, a story and left their homelands seeking better opportunities and safety for themselves and in many cases for their families - aspirations that all of us strive for.
In commemoration of the thousands of lives lost this year and each year during migration, IOM is encouraging the distribution of white wristbands with the inscription #IamaMigrant which will serve as the theme for the day as well as a powerful social media hashtag.
The Candlelight Vigil is a renewed opportunity to increase awareness on drivers of migration, and most importantly shift the narrative of migration towards a positive recognition of the many ways migrants contribute to host societies.
The candlelight should become the symbol of our solidarity with migrants and their families and remind us that for many, migration is often the only sliver of light left for millions of people around the world.
IOM will remain steadfast in ensuring that the international community stays fully committed to saving migrants lives.
We must ensure that their lives have not been lost in vain. We must not forget them.
Conferences and Events
- 25th Anniversary of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers, 18 December 1990 - 18 December 2015
- CMW-CRC Call for submissions on its Joint General Comment on the Human Rights of Children in the Context of International Migration in English
- Panel discussion with migrants and migrant advocates (on the occasion of the International Migrants Day)
Friday,
18 December 2015, from 10:00 to 13:00, in Conference Room 11.
[All are
invited. For further information, please contact Ms. Olivia Headon,
IOM
(e-mail oheadon@iom.int; tel. 1 (212) 681-7000, ext. 221); please email
rsvpnewyork@iom.int for
registration.]
Action on Social media
- Use hash tag #MigrantsDay and #IamaMigrant to commemorate the international day and join the worldwide Candlelight Vigil to Remember Lost Migrant Lives
RESOURCES :
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
- Ahead of International Migrants’ Day 2015, a group of United Nations experts* on the rights of migrants have called on Governments across the world to guarantee access to services for all migrants, regardless of their migratory status. OHCHR
- The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Press Statement by John Kerry, Secretary of State on the International Migrants Day 2015, U.S. Department of States.
- Deputy Assistant Secretary Wiesner addresses International Migrants Day in a Video Message December 18, 2015
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