{"id":384885,"date":"2018-11-13T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/migration-is-a-human-right\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:38:55","slug":"migration-is-a-human-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/migration-is-a-human-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration Is A Human Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judith Bergman<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/13263\/un-migration-human-right\"><br \/>The Gatestone Institute<em><br \/><\/em><\/a>November 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The United Nations, <em>in a non-binding agreement that almost all UN member states will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/conf\/migration\/\">sign at a ceremony<\/a>\u00a0in Morocco in early December,<\/em> is\u00a0making migration a human right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The finalized text of the agreement, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/72\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/07\/migration.pdf\">Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration<\/a>, although officially non-binding, <strong><em>\u201cputs migration firmly on the global agenda. It will be a point of reference for years to come and induce real change on the ground\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/en\/news\/nocat-uncategorized\/un-finalizes-first-ever-global-compact-for-migration.html\">according<\/a>\u00a0to J\u00fcrg Lauber, the representative of Switzerland to the UN \u2014 who led the work on the agreement together with the representative of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>One immediate irony, of course, is that few countries have entry requirements as restrictive as Switzerland\u2019s. If one wishes to stay more than three months, not only is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internations.org\/switzerland-expats\/guide\/moving-to-switzerland-15502\/residence-permits-for-switzerland-3\">\u201cresidence permit\u201d required<\/a>, but, \u201cIn an effort to limit immigration from non-EU\/EFTA countries, Swiss authorities impose strict annual limitations on the number of residence and work permits granted to foreigners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These hard-to-come-by-residencies have, unsurprisingly,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/society\/hundreds-of-rich-foreigners-buy-swiss-residency-thanks-to-derogation\/42951460\">become<\/a>\u00a0a source of income as \u201c[r]ich foreigners \u2018buy\u2019 Swiss residency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UN agreement, on the other hand, notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cRefugees and migrants are entitled to the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, which must be respected, protected and fulfilled at all times.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Preamble, section 4)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>It cannot be stressed enough that this agreement is not about refugees fleeing persecution, or their rights to protection under international law. Instead, the agreement propagates the radical idea that migration \u2014 for any reason \u2014 is something that needs to be promoted, enabled and protected.<\/strong> Almost all UN member states, except for the United States, Austria, Australia, Croatia, Hungary and possibly also the Czech Republic and Poland, are expected to sign it.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has denied that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/un-member-states-migration-is-a-human-right.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith BergmanThe Gatestone InstituteNovember 12, 2018 The United Nations, in a non-binding agreement that almost all UN member states will\u00a0sign at a ceremony\u00a0in Morocco in early December, is\u00a0making migration a human right. The finalized text of the agreement, the\u00a0Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, although officially non-binding, \u201cputs migration firmly on the global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}