Question
Consider the following statements:
1. Recently, all the countries of the United Nations have adopted the first-ever compact for international migration, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
2. The objectives and commitments stated in the GCM are binding on the UN member countries.
3. The GCM addresses internal migration or internally displaced people also in its objectives and commitments.
How many of the above statements are correct?
Explanation
All three statements are wrong. The Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was adopted by only 163 countries, not all UN members — several, including the US, Hungary, and Israel, voted against or opted out.
It is explicitly a non-legally-binding framework grounded in cooperative, not enforceable, commitments — contradicting statement 2.
And its 23 objectives focus on cross-border international migration, not on internal migration or internally displaced persons within a country — ruling out statement 3 as well.
Since none hold, the answer is Option D.