{"id":47367,"date":"2026-05-09T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47367"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:47:59","slug":"migration-is-fundamentally-about-human-dignity-aspiration-and-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/migration-is-fundamentally-about-human-dignity-aspiration-and-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Migration is fundamentally about human dignity, aspiration, and opportunity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 9: Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, Lok Bahadur Thapa, has reaffirmed Nepal\u2019s commitment to advancing safe, orderly &amp; regular migration as a GCM Champion country and major labour-sending nation.<\/p>\n<p>Addressed the General Debate of the 2nd International Migration Review Forum on Friday, he highlighted the contribution of nearly 4 million Nepali migrant workers to destination-country economies and Nepal\u2019s development through remittances, skills, and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>He also shed light on Nepal\u2019s reforms on ethical recruitment, gender-responsive migration policies, skills development, anti-trafficking measures, social protection through the Social Security Fund and Foreign Employment Welfare Fund, and the digitalization of recruitment services, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Thapa further stressed the need to address persistent challenges including irregular migration, trafficking, exploitation, and coordination gaps, calling for stronger International cooperation and shared responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 9: Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, Lok Bahadur Thapa, has reaffirmed Nepal\u2019s commitment to advancing safe, orderly &amp; regular migration as a GCM Champion country and major labour-sending nation. Addressed the General Debate of the 2nd International Migration Review Forum on Friday, he highlighted the contribution of nearly 4 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47369,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367\/revisions\/47369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}