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Background

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) adopted in 2018, provides a cooperative framework with 23 interconnected objectives, 10 principles and a proposed review from 2020.

The first review of the implementation of the GCM in Latin America and the Caribbean was held virtually in April 2021. Its summary report informed the first International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) held at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 17 to 20 May 2022 and resulted in the unanimous adoption of the Progress Declaration. 

Recognizing that most international migration takes place within regions, Member States called upon relevant sub-regional, regional and cross-regional processes, platforms and organizations, including regional economic commissions, and regional consultative processes to review the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM) at the regional level beginning in 2020, and every four years thereafter. 

In this framework, the Second Regional Review Meeting will be held from March 18-20, 2025 at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, with an interactive multi-stakeholder hearing beforehand (on March 18) followed by an Intergovernmental Conference (March 19-20). Its objective  is to enable Member States and all other stakeholders to assess progress, challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the Global Compact in the region in this second phase.

The meeting is co-organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in their capacity as Coordinators of the United Nations Migration Network, with the support of the various agencies, funds and programs that make up the Regional Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNNM-LAC).