Decision on the 17th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General Third Supplementary Report: Outcome of the Tripartite Technical Meeting on the Access of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons to the Labour Market (Geneva, 5–7 July 2016)

Record of decisions | 09 November 2016

Decision on the 17th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General

Third Supplementary Report: Outcome of the Tripartite Technical Meeting on the Access of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons to the Labour Market (Geneva, 5–7 July 2016)

The Governing Body:

(a) took note of the final report of the Tripartite Technical Meeting on the Access of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons to the Labour Market and authorized the Director-General to publish and disseminate the outcome of the meeting, which included the non-binding guiding principles on the access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour market, and to draw upon the guiding principles in follow-up to the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, held in New York on 19 September 2016;

(b) requested the Director-General to take into consideration the non-binding guiding principles on the access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour market when drawing up proposals for future work of the Office in this area, taking into account all viewpoints and positions expressed during the Tripartite Technical Meeting and the 328th Session of the Governing Body and considering particularly the concerns of States hosting large numbers of refugees.

(Document GB.328/INS/17/3(Rev.), paragraph 6, as amended by the Governing Body.)