• Initiative follows 2016 New York Declaration, aligned with Global Compact for Migration and SDGs
• IOM to coordinate, with UN Resident Coordinator Mohamed Yahya as network chair
• Pakistan’s first Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund Programme also launched

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations launched on Monday the Network on Migration in Pakistan to strengthen migration management and governance to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration.

The establishment of the United Nations Network on Migration (UNNM) marked a significant step towards a unified, collaborative approach to migration governance and responding to the inter-connected challenges of human trafficking and migration smuggling.

The network has been established in Pakistan in pursuance of the ‘New York Declaration for Refugees and Migration’, unanimously adopted by UN member states in 2016, which created the UNNM. The declaration marked a major commitment to address........

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