The Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) will be held in Marrakech, Morocco on 10 and 11 December 2018. The Holy See will join many of the world's governments in adopting this Compact, the world's first international agreement on migration in general. Last month, the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) was approved by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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Our elected representatives have returned home for Christmas without resolving the offshore detention crisis that confronts our country. It would seem that a majority in both houses of our Parliament favour laws and policies that will bring to an end the five-year saga of refugees and asylum-seekers who have had to put their lives on hold on Nauru and Manus Island.

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