Immigration security

Let’s grab the chance to trounce human traffickers and smugglers

Last year, the New York Declaration delivered a compelling statement from the United Nations that refugees and migrants need protection and assistance.

Nations agreed to return to New York in 2018 to adopt a Global Compact on migration.

The compact will be the first negotiated agreement by governments to cover every aspect of international migration.

Migration is an issue for our times — and there is a real need to go after root causes such as conflict — but we can all agree that refugees and migrants should not be treated like criminals.

ORGANISED CRIME

This is why the compact can take the lead, and nations can assist by adopting and implementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime and its relevant protocols on trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling.

We have the tools to disrupt organised crime networks through intelligence sharing, joint operations, financial investigations and coordination across local and regional borders.