USA's withdraw from UN's Global Compact on Migration
December 5 , 2017 2545 days 1121 0
The United States has pulled out of Global Compact on Migration.
It has argued that Obama-era negotiated UN compact process deal contains numerous provisions that inconsistent with country’s immigration and refugee policies and Trump Administration’s immigration principles.
The US has been a part of the non-binding New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants since it was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly last year.
The declaration called for negotiations on a Global Compact for Migration, aimed at protecting the rights of refugees and migrants and helping them resettle.
The refugees and migration compact is the fourth initiative the United States has withdrawn from this year.