MIGRATION AND YOUTH: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES * E x

It complements and supports the GMG Position Paper on Migration and the post- 2015 Development Agenda.7 The challenge is not only how to make youth and migration 5 relevant to the global agenda, but also how to make that agenda relevant to youth and the realities of global interconnectedness and mobility. [...] Facts, figures and trends Chapter 1: Youth Migration: Facts & Figures, authored by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA), and building on the joint work between UN/DESA and UNICEF to gather and analyse data available on youth migration, provides an overview of available facts and figures on youth migration and offers recommendations for i. [...] The main recommendations are: to strengthen the evidence base on youth migration by investing in collection, dissemination and analysis of age- and sex-disaggregated data; to build the capacity of governments to obtain, disseminate and analyse such data; and to support qualitative and quantitative research. [...] The first chapter, Human Rights of Adolescents and Youth in the Context of Migration, was prepared under the auspices of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) with contributions by the National University of Lanús (Argentina), the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) and. [...] The contribution concludes by calling on the international community and national policy-makers and stakeholders to adopt a rights- based, age- and gender-sensitive, and equity-focused approach to youth migration and development, stressing that the special protections granted to children under international and national law and policy should not automatically disappear when the child reaches 18 ye.