Integrating Migration into the Post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda
The Member States of the United Nations by September 2015 will have negotiated a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) that are ambitious in their sweep, focused on ending poverty and hunger, combating climate change, making cities more sustainable, and improving health and education. These goals will frame the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire at the end of 2015. While the MDGs did not contain any target setting on migration and development, a draft of the SDGs produced by an Open Working Group composed of UN Member States does include a focus on improving the quality of the migration process within the broader goal of reducing inequality within and among countries.
In Integrating Migration into the Post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda, author Lars Johan Lönnback examines the role of migration within the development agenda, suggesting that inclusion of clear migration targets could provide substantial benefits to the world’s 232 million migrants as well as their children.
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