The development history of international migration day

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

The United Nations General Assembly declared 65438+February 2000 18 as International Migrants Day. On this day 1990, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

On September 4th and 5th, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level dialogue on international migration and development. The 132 Member States participating in the dialogue reiterated some important messages.

From 2065438 to September 2006, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level summit, which enabled countries to solve the problem of large-scale refugee and immigrant flows in a more humane and coordinated way.

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On the same day, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labour Organization and the International NGO Committee on Human Rights jointly held an expert meeting to discuss the issue of world migration. The meeting called on the international community to pay attention to the rights and dignity of migrants and recognize their contribution to the development of the host country.

According to the relevant data of the United Nations, the number of immigrants in the world has greatly increased in the past 10 years. At present, there are about1.200 million to1.300 million immigrants in the world. At the same time, the United Nations pointed out that in recent years, incidents of intolerance, discrimination, exclusion and hatred against immigrants have occurred one after another and are on the rise. The 55th General Assembly adopted a resolution on February 4th, 65438, designating 12 and 18 as "International Migration Day". The General Assembly also requested all Member States to commemorate this day, publicize human rights and the basic freedoms of migrants, and formulate relevant measures to protect the rights of all migrants.

Status:

At present, the total number of international immigrants has risen from about 65438+75 million in 2000 to 232 million.

Immigration involves more and more countries. Compared with 2000, the number of immigrants going to the top ten destination countries has decreased.

About 49% of immigrants in the world are women.

About one tenth of the immigrants are under the age of 15.

In addition, last year, migrant remittances reached $4 billion/kloc-0 billion, almost four times that of official development assistance/kloc-0 billion/0.26 billion.

Views on immigrants:

Many developed and active economies need migrant workers to fill jobs that cannot be outsourced and cannot be undertaken by local workers at current wages. The aging population is also the reason for this increase in demand, because the aging population leads to a shortage of workers relative to their families. Because young people are more educated, fewer and fewer people are satisfied with low-income and high-intensity jobs.

Migration may lead to lower wages for low-skilled workers in developed economies, or increase their unemployment rate, many of whom are immigrants themselves following previous migration flows. However, most immigrants supplement the skills of domestic workers rather than compete with them. Because the jobs that immigrants are engaged in are not done or the cost is higher, their citizens can engage in other jobs with higher productivity and better pay. Immigrants can also maintain some viable economic activities, otherwise they will emigrate. Immigrants expand the labor force, expand the consumer base and contribute to their entrepreneurial ability, thus promoting the economic growth of receiving countries.

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