General Assembly decision makes International Organization for Migration part of UN system

25 July 2016 – The United Nations General Assembly today unanimously adopted a resolution approving an agreement to make the International Organization for Migration (IOM) part of the UN system as a related organization.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54545#.V5s6aFenoU7

19 September 2016 – High Level Summit to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants

In June 2016, the Global Coalition on Migration (GCM) — representing a broad, global, multi-sectoral coalition of civil society organizations supporting migrants’ rights and rights-based migration governance — submitted a civil society perspective on important considerations for the 19 September 2016, High Level Summit to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants.

On 16 July, a second draft of the Global Compact for Refugees was released by the co-facilitators of the Summit on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, Ireland and Jordan. It is expected that this Compact will accompany the Political Declaration from the Summit as an annex.

You can read the new version of the Second draft of the Outcome document for the 19 September Summit here:

High-Level Meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants (12 July)