Appendix A. United Nations Commission on Human Security

The Commission on Human Security was established in January 2001 in response to United Nations Secretary‑General Kofi Annan’s call for a world “free from want” and “free from fear”. The Commission consisted of 12 international leaders, co-chaired by Sadako Ogata (former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and Professor Amartya Sen (1998 Nobel Economics Prize Laureate), building upon the seminal work of Mahbub ul Haq in the 1994 Human Development Report.⁸⁴ The Commission argued for an “international migration framework of norms, processes and institutional arrangements to ensure … order and predictability.”⁸⁵

The table below summarizes major developments on the key migration-related policy recommendations in the 2003 report of the Commission.