Thematic Meeting Separation of families and missing persons in the

The high-level officials also recalled the global legislative framework in which the issue of missing migrants and the separation of families is situated, namely objective 8 of the Global Compact on Migration ("Save lives and 1 Outcome document: Thematic meeting on separation of families and missing persons in the context of migration prevent deaths and injury; to identify the missing and the dead. [...] The high-level speakers agreed that a humane, coordinated and multi-stakeholder approach between all the actors involved at national, regional and international level was of paramount importance in providing bilateral and multilateral responses to the issue of the separation of families and missing persons in the context of migration. [...] Moreover, over the last years, several commitments on missing migrants have been taken at global policy level notably Objective 8 of the Global Compact on Migration “Save lives and prevent deaths and injury; to identify the missing and the dead; and to provide assistance to their families”, as well as the Resolution on missing migrants and refugees in Africa and the impact on their families, which. [...] 3 Under IHRL, states can be held responsible for interference with the right to life or the right to private and family life, and for violation of the prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or the prohibition of enforced disappearance while rules related to the search for and identification of missing migrants may also be found in international law of the sea,. [...] 8 Outcome document: Thematic meeting on separation of families and missing persons in the context of migration Next steps, Domain 3 The thematic meeting ended with the endorsement of the following two recommendations: - Continue to discuss the issue of international protection and asylum, and more specifically the question of missing migrants in the context of a follow-up meeting in The Gambia in.