© Alberto Sernández
On 11 December 2018, at the Intergovernmental Conference in Marrakech, 152 States adopted the
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. This Compact was an unprecedented milestone for the United Nations, since migration was incorporated from a comprehensive perspective into the UN system for the first time. This Compact, also known as the Global Compact for Migration (GCM), revolves around 23 objectives in turn broken down into a series of actions, which include the measures that States must address from an international, regional, state and local perspective in order to respond to the different dimensions of migration. Thus, the GCM aims to cover everything from the circumstances that provoke or encourage migration, to the conditions of migrants in countries of transit or destination and the policies that determine them, without forgetting the guarantees in the return processes whether voluntary or forced.
