Baby Steps
16th December 2018, 16:00
The first half of the video touches upon the issue of 'sovereign' Nations being coerced by supra-national institutions into signing up for The Global Compact for Migration (https://www.iom.int/global-compact-migration):
What are the aims of the Global Compact for Migration?
The Global Compact is framed consistent with target 10.7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in which Member States committed to cooperate internationally to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration and its scope is defined in Annex II of the New York Declaration. It is intended to:
address all aspects of international migration, including the humanitarian, developmental, human rights-related and other aspects;
make an important contribution to global governance and enhance coordination on international migration;
present a framework for comprehensive international cooperation on migrants and human mobility;
set out a range of actionable commitments, means of implementation and a framework for follow-up and review among Member States regarding international migration in all its dimensions;
be guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda;
and be informed by the Declaration of the 2013 High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaoXB3a3f1o
Allegedly, certain French Generals are saying that Macron's ratification of this is an act of treachery (https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/macron-accused-of-treason-by-french-generals-for-signing-un-migration-pact/).
What do we think? Is this more right wing alarmism? Should we not respect the Human Rights of ALL migrants?
Many on Project Avalon will have detailed perspectives and well-researched positions on this....
My take is that fundamentally this compact is yet another example of a power grab, whereby these supra-national institutions seek to assert ever more legal power and control over the Nations.
The problem with the idea of eroding the sovereignty of the nation state is that it effectively erodes the sovereignty of the people within that Nation state. Their control over their own human rights-what happens to them, and whether they can facilitate improvement. IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE TO WHAT DEGREE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THEIR NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IS HANDED TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
Collectivising the power/sovereignty of multiple Nation States is not inherently undemocratic, but for concerned voters, the question has to be HOW DEMOCRATICALLY ACCOUNTABLE ARE THE NEW INSTITUTIONS.
And there's the rub (for a paranoid person) We repeatedly see our elected leaders cosying up to these groupings (EU, UN, Multinational Companies, IMF, Bilderberg, etc) without bothering to get any democratic mandate. They do it because they know that it is unlikely , after open debate, that such a mandate would be given.
Migration, yes, but subject to transparent control from the electors in recipient countries!
What are the aims of the Global Compact for Migration?
The Global Compact is framed consistent with target 10.7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in which Member States committed to cooperate internationally to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration and its scope is defined in Annex II of the New York Declaration. It is intended to:
address all aspects of international migration, including the humanitarian, developmental, human rights-related and other aspects;
make an important contribution to global governance and enhance coordination on international migration;
present a framework for comprehensive international cooperation on migrants and human mobility;
set out a range of actionable commitments, means of implementation and a framework for follow-up and review among Member States regarding international migration in all its dimensions;
be guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda;
and be informed by the Declaration of the 2013 High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaoXB3a3f1o
Allegedly, certain French Generals are saying that Macron's ratification of this is an act of treachery (https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/macron-accused-of-treason-by-french-generals-for-signing-un-migration-pact/).
What do we think? Is this more right wing alarmism? Should we not respect the Human Rights of ALL migrants?
Many on Project Avalon will have detailed perspectives and well-researched positions on this....
My take is that fundamentally this compact is yet another example of a power grab, whereby these supra-national institutions seek to assert ever more legal power and control over the Nations.
The problem with the idea of eroding the sovereignty of the nation state is that it effectively erodes the sovereignty of the people within that Nation state. Their control over their own human rights-what happens to them, and whether they can facilitate improvement. IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE TO WHAT DEGREE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THEIR NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IS HANDED TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
Collectivising the power/sovereignty of multiple Nation States is not inherently undemocratic, but for concerned voters, the question has to be HOW DEMOCRATICALLY ACCOUNTABLE ARE THE NEW INSTITUTIONS.
And there's the rub (for a paranoid person) We repeatedly see our elected leaders cosying up to these groupings (EU, UN, Multinational Companies, IMF, Bilderberg, etc) without bothering to get any democratic mandate. They do it because they know that it is unlikely , after open debate, that such a mandate would be given.
Migration, yes, but subject to transparent control from the electors in recipient countries!