Nearly 85 Percent Of UN Nations – Not US – Back Migration Deal
Monday, 10 December 2018 Despite enormous pressure from the United States and a few other nations, nearly 85 percent of United Nations countries agreed Monday on a sweeping, non-binding accord to ensure safe, orderly and humane migration, Fox News reported. The Global Compact for Migration accord, the report said, is the first of its kind and was described as a pivotal test of the UN-led effort to crack down on the dangerous and illegal cross border movements that has turned smuggling into a booming worldwide industry. "Unregulated migration bears a terrible human cost: a cost in lives lost on perilous journeys across deserts, oceans and rivers; and a cost in lives ruined at the hands of smugglers, unscrupulous...
Reuters reports Brazil has pulled out of a United Nations pact on dealing with rising migration, joining the United States and a growing number of countries in rejecting the agreement,. Brazil’s..
Police deployed tear gas and water cannons against protesters demonstrating outside the headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium, against a proposed migration pact. More than 5,000..
Despite enormous pressure from the United States and a few other nations, nearly 85 percent of United Nations countries agreed Monday on a sweeping, non-binding accord to ensure safe, orderly and humane migration, Fox News reported. The Global Compact for Migration accord, the report said, is the first of its kind and was described as a pivotal test of the UN-led effort to crack down on the dangerous and illegal cross border movements that has turned smuggling into a booming worldwide industry. "Unregulated migration bears a terrible human cost: a cost in lives lost on perilous journeys across deserts, oceans and rivers; and a cost in lives ruined at the hands of smugglers, unscrupulous...
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