Last week, countries met in Marrakech, Morocco to adopt the first-ever global agreement on a shared approach to international migration: The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration. With more than 258 million migrants currently living outside their country of birth – and that number expected to rise – the need for a common, cooperative approach to migration has never been more urgent. Migrants, who are entitled to the same fundamental freedoms and human rights as all people, often face dangerous conditions fleeing conflict, persecution, poverty, or lack of opportunity. And often, once they reach a new community, they are met with harmful misperceptions and resistance. While migration clearly presents challenges that cannot be handled by any one country alone, it also presents many shared benefits and opportunities that are often overlooked. #ForMigration . Photo: UNICEF/Brow