A key player behind the #GCM, @Morocco_UN have done much to improve international migration governance.
Yet global delegates prepare for #roadtomarrakech amidst reports from Morocco of crackdowns, pushbacks, & deaths of the very people for whom the #GCM was designed to protect.
Sept 26 - Moroccan navy shot migrant boat, killing a 22 year old Moroccan woman, Hayat B. a law student
moroccoworldnews.com/2018/09/254064…
Three other migrants were injured, including one in a critical condition, who has their arm amputated.
independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…
Moroccan authorities have undertaken major raids on migrant neighbourhoods, forcibly transferring asylum-seekers, refugees, undocumented *and* registered migrants - including children - to the south. An approach deemed "cruel and unlawful" by @amnesty
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Migrants report that Moroccan police smashed doors of their small shared rooms and took money they were making to pay smugglers.
Now, hiding in forests, they face further raids, as police seize their belongings, burning camps and force them onto buses
apnews.com/84355dd296ab4b…
The Global Compact on Migration is a beacon of promise.
It is a historic agreement which recognises migration as a reality, and that its “chaotic, dangerous exploitative aspects cannot be allowed to become a new normal"
un.org/development/de…
As @MarocDiplomatie @louise_arbour lay ground for #GCM #ForMigration adoption in Marrakech, all hope for this agreement now hinge on the Host Country's committment to ensuring rule of law, due process, & access to justice in its own migration governance
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