United Nations Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda

The United Nations General Assembly will convene to adopt the post-2015 development agenda. The UNGA will discuss and ratify the document "Transfroming the world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". 

As part of the 17 Goals and 169 targets currently on the table, resulting from a a two-year global consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, migration-explicit targets appear under the goals on economic growth, employment and decent work (SDG 8), inequality (SDG 10), and means of implementation (SDG 17). 

These include:

• 8.8       Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
• 10.7      Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies 
• 10.c      By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent
• 17.18    By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries […] to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by [inter alia…] migratory status

In addition to the above, three targets call for an end to exploitation and human trafficking under the goals on gender equality (SDG 5); economic growth, employment and decent work (SDG 8); and peaceful societies, access to justice and accountable institutions (SDG 16).