Special Day Post
Every year, December 18 is celebrated as the International Migration Day to raise awareness about the challenges and difficulties of international migration and to celebrate the contribution of migrants. On 18 December 1990, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Since then, every year on December 18, the United Nations, through the UN-related agency International Organization for Migration (IOM), uses International Migrants Day to highlight the contributions made by the roughly 272 million migrants, including more than 41 million internally displaced persons, and the challenges they face.
This global event, is supported by events organized by IOM's nearly 500 country offices and sub-offices as well as governmental, international, and domestic civil society partners examines a wide range of migration themes, Social Cohesion, Dignity, Exploitation, Solidarity to advocate for migration guided by the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and the society.
Significance- The day plays a significant role in determining the movement of people due to voluntary or forced movements for environmental issues like disaster and poverty. The various factors that result in the characteristics and scale of migration in the present and the future have created the issue of migration.
2021- International Migrants Day (18 December) this year falls almost exactly 70 years after the Brussels conference that led to the establishment of the organization in 1989. A broad range of factors continues to determine the movement of people. They are either voluntary or forced movements as a result of the increased magnitude and frequency of disasters, economic challenges, and extreme poverty or conflict. Approximately 281 million people were international migrants in 2020, representing 3.6 percent of the global population.
All these will significantly affect the characteristics and scale of migration in the future, and determine the strategies and policies countries must develop and also ensure the fundamental human rights of migrants are protected.
Theme 2021- ‘Harnessing the potential of human mobility.