A/HRC/45/30 21. The Global Compact for Migration aims to ensure that States fulfil the objectives set out therein in a manner consistent with their human rights obligations, including to mitigate the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to migrate, to reduce the risks and vulnerabilities faced by migrants at different stages of migration, to enhance the availability of safe and regular pathways for migration, to save migrant lives, to limit the use of immigration detention, to manage borders in compliance with human rights law, to eliminate discrimination in all forms and to facilitate social inclusion and access to services for migrants. In doing so, it places the dignity and human rights of migrants and societies at the core, while recognizing that States have the sovereign prerogative to determine their national migration policies and to govern migration within their jurisdictions, in conformity with international law. 22. The Global Compact for Migration presents a unique opportunity to implement a comprehensive and human rights-based, child-sensitive and gender-responsive framework for the governance of international migration. States, international organizations, civil society, national human rights institutions and other stakeholders are now following through on its implementation at the local, national, regional and global levels. 23. To ensure more effective, timely and coordinated United Nations system-wide support to States in their efforts to implement, follow up on and review the Global Compact for Migration, the United Nations Network on Migration was established in 2018. The Network is to provide United Nations system-wide support towards ensuring the rights and well-being of all migrants and their communities of origin, transit and destination. Since its establishment, the Network has developed a global workplan and, aware of the specificities of each State’s migration realities, encouraged its replication at the country and regional levels. More than 50 structures are now in place to support Governments and other key stakeholders in their efforts to implement the Global Compact for Migration. Recent work has focused on the impact of COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic on migrants and their communities, with the Network issuing guidance and advocacy messages on issues such as discrimination, forced returns, alternatives to detention and access to services, highlighting promising practices in line with the Global Compact for Migration. 26 Furthermore, the Network has established the United Nations multi-partner trust fund to support the Global Compact for Migration. 24. A number of States are developing national plans for implementing the Global Compact for Migration. However, there is a need for greater urgency and a genuine commitment to the transformative change promised by the Global Compact across all countries of origin, transit and destination ahead of the International Migration Review Forum in 2022. 25. Preparations are currently under way for the first regional reviews of the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration. These reviews, which will be supported by the United Nations regional commissions and the regional Network structures, will follow the 360-degree vision and guiding principles of the Global Compact for Migration and focus on the dignity and human rights of migrants. States and other stakeholders will have a first chance to review progress made and challenges remaining in achieving the commitments made through the Global Compact for Migration, including in terms of developing rights-based national implementation plans through a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach. 26. As requested, the Secretary-General will, drawing on the work of the Network, report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration, the activities of the United Nations system in that regard and the functioning of the institutional arrangements. 27. While the COVID-19 crisis has created challenges for the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration, as States’ priorities and attention have shifted to combating the pandemic, it has also demonstrated the value of the Global Compact for Migration as a framework for responding to the pandemic, including by placing human rights and human dignity at the centre of a shared public health challenge, developing inclusive public health 26 6 See https://migrationnetwork.un.org/.