Table 3. Objectives of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Objective 1
Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies.
Objective 2
Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country
of origin.
Objective 3
Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration.
Objective 4
Ensure that all migrants have proof of legal identity and adequate documentation.
We commit to fulfil the right of all individuals to a legal identity by providing all our nationals
with proof of nationality and relevant documentation, allowing national and local authorities to
ascertain a migrant’s legal identity upon entry, during stay, and for return, as well as to ensure
effective migration procedures, efficient service provision, and improved public safety. We further
commit to ensure, through appropriate measures, that migrants are issued adequate
documentation and civil registry documents, such as birth, marriage and death certificates, at `all
stages of migration, as a means to empower migrants to effectively exercise their human rights.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
a) Improve civil registry systems, with a particular focus on reaching unregistered persons and our
nationals residing in other countries, including by providing relevant identity and civil registry
documents, strengthening capacities, and investing in information and communication technology
solutions, while upholding the right to privacy and protecting personal data
b) Harmonize travel documents in line with the specifications of the International Civil Aviation
Organization to facilitate interoperable and universal recognition of travel documents, as well as
to combat identity fraud and document forgery, including by investing in digitalization, and
strengthening mechanisms for biometric data-sharing, while upholding the right to privacy and
protecting personal data
c) Ensure adequate, timely, reliable and accessible consular documentation to our nationals
residing in other countries, including identity and travel documents, making use of information and
communications technology, as well as community outreach, particularly in remote areas
d) Facilitate access to personal documentation, such as passports and visas, and ensure that
relevant regulations and criteria to obtain such documentation are non-discriminatory, by
undertaking a gender-responsive and age-sensitive review in order to prevent increased risk of
vulnerabilities throughout the migration cycle
e) Strengthen measures to reduce statelessness, including by registering migrants’ births, ensuring
that women and men can equally confer their nationality to their children, and providing
nationality to children born in another State’s territory, especially in situations where a child would
otherwise be stateless, fully respecting the human right to a nationality and in accordance with
national legislation
f) Review and revise requirements to prove nationality at service delivery centres to ensure that
migrants without proof of nationality or legal identity are not precluded from accessing basic
services nor denied their human rights
g) Build upon existing practices at the local level that facilitate participation in community life,
such as interaction with authorities and access to relevant services, through the issuance of
registration cards to all persons living in a municipality, including migrants, that contain basic
personal information, while not constituting entitlements to citizenship or residency
Objective 5
Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration.
Objective 6
Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work.
Objective 7
Address and reduce vulnerabilities in migration.
Objective 8
Save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants.
Objective 9
Strengthen the transnational response to smuggling of migrants.
Objective 10
Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration.
Objective 11
Manage borders in an integrated, secure and coordinated manner.
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