This guide is intended for reference by States to optimize the use of the tools, systems and applications available to enhance their national border control management.

This training manual provides guidance on Protection-Sensitive Entry Systems which has a broader meaning than the commonly used term “border control” and captures the fact that migration policies and strategies regulating access to territory have undergone significant changes and now include...

The challenges for border-related agencies during crises are numerous. This document contributes to overall response preparedness by promoting existing tools and pointing national authorities to international and regional assistance frameworks.

UNHCR data on dead and missing at sea along the Central, Eastern and Western Mediterranean routes since 2013.

The Migrant Files database contains a list of deaths between 2000 and June 2016 that occurred along routes to Europe.  

The Red Cross Red Crescent’s Trace the Face project is a photo gallery of people looking for their lost relatives. Since 2013, this Red Cross Red Crescent online tool has helped thousands of people try to locate missing relatives: husband, mother, father, sister, brother, cousins, etc. The project...

The UNITED Network has been monitoring the fatal consequences of migration policies since 1993, compiled in its ‘List of Deaths’. The campaign aims to raise public attention and denounce exclusionist policies.

Network TORs Paraguay 

The Forensic Missing Migrant Initiative page, hosted by the Stichting Humanitarian Platform for Transnational Forensic Assistance, provides information about the definitions of a ‘missing migrant,’ identification processes linked to this issue, and policy recommendations for action to reduce migrant...

Network TORs Argentina 

This Texts and Materials book on ‘The Child’s Right to a Nationality and Childhood Statelessness’ complements the UNICEF and ISI Advanced intensive training on childhood statelessness & the child’s right to a nationality. The book largely comprises excerpts from relevant texts and materials – books...

These guidelines were developed under the auspices and overall guidance of the United Nations Legal Identity Expert Group, established in September 2018 and co-chaired by the United Nations Statistics Division/ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Development Programme and...

Provides guidance to decision makers and the relevant authorities of countries for the development and implementation of administrative electronic data processing systems for civil registration and vital statistics systems.

The report, focused on stateless children, also approaches new growing problems, such as the heightened persecution and displacement of some stateless minorities.

This article explores the nexus between migration and statelessness.

This study provides a comparative review of migration, nationality and statelessness in the 15 ECOWAS countries.

This Background Note provides information about gender equality in legal provisions in nationality laws which relate to conferral of nationality to children.  

This handbook outlines international standards and good practices in order to encourage further engagement and implementation towards the eradication of stateless in the OSCE area. 

This technical brief from UNFPA encourages upcoming census to include core questions on country of birth, country of citizenship, duration of stay, and reason for migration, in addition to advocating for the greater release of population and census data. 

The United Nations Legal Identity Agenda 2020- 2030 (LIA), backed by the Deputy Secretary-General, was launched as a “One UN” approach to support Member States building holistic, country-owned, sustainable civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems.