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In this context, concrete and accountable commitments, means of implementation and a framework for the follow-up and review of implementation procedures will have to be defined through the Global Compact on Migration.

According to a recent UNHCR report, 68.5 million people were displaced worldwide in 2017. These included refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, returning refugees or stateless people. More than half of the refugees were children under 18. This movement was the result of persecution, conflict, and generalized violence.

4 years have passed since the 3rd of August 2014, the day on which the Daesh fighters, or ISIS, in full territorial expansion, started to penetrate in the territory of Sinjar, Northern Iraq, home of the majority of the Yazidis in the world. More than 3,000 Yazidis died and just less than 7,000 have been kidnapped.