{"id":22630,"date":"2018-11-21T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22630"},"modified":"2018-11-21T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:22:46","slug":"australia-joins-us-israel-in-refusing-to-sign-un-migration-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22630","title":{"rendered":"Australia joins US, Israel in refusing to sign UN migration pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Australia will not join a United Nations-backed global pact on migration, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday, citing concerns that the deal would be used to &#8220;undermine Australia&#8217;s strong border protection laws and practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Morrison government&#8217;s decision comes as countries from around the world move to formally adopt the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/refugeesmigrants.un.org\/sites\/default\/files\/180711_final_draft_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration<\/a>&#8221; pact next month.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The UN made the decision to come up with a global compact on migration in 2016, in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/interactive\/2016\/08\/world\/dangerous-migrant-crossings-mediterranean\/\" target=\"_blank\">crisis in the Mediterranean<\/a>, which has seen thousands of migrants die while attempting to cross into Europe.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Australia will not join a United Nations-backed global pact on migration, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday, citing concerns that the deal would be used to &#8220;undermine Australia&#8217;s strong border protection laws and practices.&#8221;The Morrison government&#8217;s decision comes as countries from around the world move to formally adopt the &#8220;Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}