The House<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLast fall, the UN’s General Assembly adopted a resolution\u00a0calling for a set of guiding principles to handle mass migration.\u00a0As the new special representative, Arbour is tasked with crafting an international agreement to regulate it.<\/p>\n
“There is an acknowledgment that human mobility is unstoppable. It has already been there. So to bring safety and order into it is ambitious, but it’s a good framework for this project,” she said.<\/p>\n
The intergovernmental organization already has conventions to oversee\u00a0refugees. Arbour’s team will cover almost every other case where human movement is involved.<\/p>\n
“People sort of forced to move to find a way of making a living. Then there’s a whole range of economic migrants, some for shorter terms, there’s seasonal workers, there’s human trafficking, which is forced, criminal,\u00a0illegal migration. So it’s all these issues,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We’re looking at an environment in which this, I think, requires a lot of strategic effort by member states to regulate\u00a0something that will be an increasing phenomenon.”<\/p>\n
‘Harness the benefits’<\/h2>\n
One of those member states could pose a problem for Arbour’s team. U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump has temporarily halted that country’s refugee program and pledged\u00a0to deport\u00a0illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n
Arbour said she didn’t want to pre-judge the\u00a0U.S.’s migration approach so early on, but said part of her job will be to change the conversations people are having around migration.<\/p>\n
“We are maybe currently in an environment\u00a0where the kind of so-called burdens and\u00a0the negative aspects have been severely overemphasized,” she said.<\/p>\n
“You know, move away from a discourse that over-emphasizes\u00a0the so-called burden of migration and brings to the surface how countries, a\u00a0country like Canada is\u00a0a good example of that, have been able to harness the benefits.”<\/p>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArticle source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/louise-arbour-un-migration-1.4019142?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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