External Documents & Multimedia

External Documents & Multimedia

IOM World Migration Reports

World Migration Report 2018

World Migration Report 2015

World Migration Report 2013

World Migration Report 2011

World Migration Report 2010

World Migration Report 2008

World Migration Report 2005

World Migration Report 2003

World Migration Report 2000

 

UN Framework Documents and Guidelines on Migrants & Refugees

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (December 2018)

Global Compact on Refugees (September 2018)

Human Rights Council Resolution on Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (September 2017)

New York Declaration: Outcome Document of the 19 September 2016 High-Level Summit on Refugees and Migrants (August 2016)

Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders (OHCHR, September 2014)

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation (OHCHR, 2014)

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of Migrant Children and Children Born to Migrant Parents: Challenges, Good Practices and Recommendations (UNICEF & National University of Lanus, Argentina, March 2010) 

Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child (UNHCR, May 2008)

Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (OCHA, September 2004)

Guidelines on Policies and Procedures in dealing with Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum (UNHCR, 1997)

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990)

UN Conventions on Statelessness (1954 and 1961)

Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951 and 1967)

 

Reports of UN Secretaries-General and their Special Representatives for International Migration

SG Guterres’ Making Migration Work for All, input to the drafting of the Global Compact for Migration (January 2018) 

SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #6 for the GCM: Irregular migration and regular pathways, including decent work, labour mobility, recognition of skills and qualifications and other relevant measures (September 2017) 

SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #5 for the GCM: Smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons and contemporary forms of slavery, including appropriate identification, protection and assistance to migrants and trafficking victims (August 2017) 

SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #4 for the GCM: Contributions of migrants and diasporas to all dimensions of sustainable development, including remittances and portability of earned benefits (July 2017) 

SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #3 for the GCM: International cooperation and governance of migration in all its dimensions, including at borders, on transit, entry, return, readmission, integration and reintegration (June 2017)

SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #2 for the GCM: Addressing drivers of migration, including adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters and human-made crises, through protection and assistance, sustainable development, poverty eradication, conflict prevention and resolution (May 2017) 

SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #1 for the GCM: Human rights of all migrants, social inclusion, cohesion and all forms of discrimination, including racism, xenophobia and intolerance (April 2017)

SRSG Sutherland Report, input to the GCM with recommendations for managing migration better through international cooperation (February 2017)

SG Ban’s In Safety and Dignity: Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants (April 2016) 

SG Ban’s The Road to Dignity by 2030 (December 2014) 

 

Reports of OHCHR and Special Rapporteurs on the Human Rights of Migrants

SR Morales’ Report on the impact of migration on migrant women and girls: a gender perspective (April 2019) 

SR Morales’ Report on the promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (July 2018) 

SR Morales’ Report on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development (May 2018) 

OHCHR’s Report on the compendium of principles, good practices and policies on safe, orderly and regular migration in line with international human rights law (October 2017) 

SR Crépeau’s Report on the promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (July 2017) 

SR Crépeau’s Report on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility (April 2017) 

SR Crépeau’s Report on the impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants (May 2016) 

SR Crépeau’s Banking on mobility over a generation: follow-up to the regional study on the management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human rights of migrants (2015) 

SR Crépeau’s Report on the labour exploitation of migrants (2014) 

SR Crépeau’s Report on management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human rights of migrants, a regional study (2013) 

SR Crépeau’s Report on the detention of migrants in an irregular situation (2012) 

SR Bustamante’s Report on irregular migration and criminalization of migrants; protection of children in the migration process; the right to housing and health of migrants (2011) 

SR Bustamante’s Report on enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants (2010) 

SR Bustamante’s Report on protection of children in the context of migration (2009) 

SR Bustamante’s Report on criminalization of irregular migration (2008) 

SR Rodríguez Pizarro’s Report on racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia / Migrant women and unaccompanied children (December 2004) 

SR Rodríguez Pizarro’s Report on vulnerability of migrant domestic workers (January 2004) 

SR Rodríguez Pizarro’s Report on the human rights of migrants deprived of their liberty (2003) 

 

UNHCR Global Trend Reports

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2018 

Mid-Year Trends 2018

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2017

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2016

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2015

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2014

Global Trends 2013

Global Trends 2012

Global Trends 2011

Global Trends 2010

Global Trends 2009

Global Trends 2008

Global Trends 2007

Global Trends 2006

 

UN Women Expert Working Group’s Guidance Series on the Global Compact for Migration for Governments (2018)

Issue #1: Steps for Ensuring a Gender-Responsive GCM

Issue #2: Steps for Ensuring Gender-Responsive Access to Services and to Justice in the Global Compact for Migration

Issue #3: Gender-responsive approach for promoting and protecting the rights of children and families in migration 

Issue #4: Realizing the human rights, including labor rights of women migrant workers 

Issue #5: Implementing a gender-responsive global compact for migration

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