Dialogue on the International Migration Review Forum

Issues of extreme importance for ensuring safe orderly and regular migration from and to our region: 

1. The importance of a continued whole of society whole of government approach to migration government beyond the review
2. The need to learn from the lessons we learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic to improve migrants’ rights, including their right to access health and education. Beyond access, there is also a need to develop services that are responsive and sensitive to migrants needs.
3. The need to intensify efforts to provide access to skill development and upskilling for migrants, especially to young migrants.  
4. The need to enhance efforts to better protect migrants in vulnerable situations including children, women, victims of trafficking among others.
5. The need for a revamping of the system to protect migrant workers.
6. The importance of ensuring that national level efforts on migration governance trickle down and reflect local level realities of migrants and migration.
7. The need to raise migrants’ voices and encourage advocacies through empowering the role of civil organization and migrants’ networks in the Arab region to better protect and empower migrants.
8. The need to combat xenophobia and discrimination against migrants to and from the Arab region.
9. The importance of encouraging more research on migration in the region, and the need to galvanize the role of academics and academic institutions. 
10. The need to build a better enabling environment through supporting the data production to ensure evidence-based policies, allocating the needed resources to implement the necessary initiative for achieving the GCM objectives, and the need to strengthen the partnerships at all local, national, regional and global levels.