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Rescue at sea: A guide to principles and practice as applied to migrants and refugees

Practical guidance on principles and practices regarding rescue at sea as applied to refugees and migrants.
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Running an Effective Migrant Resource Centre: A Handbook for Practitioners

This handbook focuses on how Migrant Resources Centres (MRCs) can assist migrants awaiting departure in countries of origin so that they can make well-informed decisions throughout the migration cycle, including when returning.
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
HEADSTART: Fostering Integration Before Departure
Information Type:
Report

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030

The Sendai Framework articulates the need for improved understanding of disaster risk in all its dimensions of exposure, vulnerability and hazard characteristics; the strengthening of disaster risk governance, including national platforms; accountability for disaster risk management; preparedness to...
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
United Nations (UN)
Information Type:
Other

Paris Agreement

The Paris Agreement builds upon the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
United Nations (UN)
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The Economic, Social, And Cultural Rights Of Migrants In An Irregular Situation  

Many migrants in an irregular situation tend to live and work in the shadows, afraid to complain, denied rights and freedoms that we take for granted, and disproportionately vulnerable to discrimination and marginalization.
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Information Type:
Other

Policy Guide on Criminalizing Migrant Smuggling

An introductory guide for policy makers and practitioners on how to implement international legal obligations to criminalize migrant smuggling at the domestic level.
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
The Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process)
Information Type:
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Sending ideas back home: Exploring the potential of South-South social remittances in the United Republic of Tanzania

While the relevance of financial remittances for developing countries is well documented and has gained attention during the last years as an important and stable source of external development, the flows of ideas, knowledge, behaviours and social capital transmitted by migrants to their families,...
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Information Type:
Report

The Role of 'Consent' in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol

The present issue paper discusses certain questions that remained about certain aspects of the definition of trafficking in persons as defined in the Trafficking Protocol – most particularly those aspects that are not elsewhere defined in international law or commonly known to the world’s major...
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Information Type:
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Humanitarian Border Management in the Silk Routes Region – Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan

The aim of the document is to identify areas for future work in the field of humanitarian border management, a sector of assistance identified within the IOM Migration Crisis Operational Framework (MCOF).
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Information Type:
Report

Pre-departure training curriculum - Viet Nam to Malaysia: Facilitator's Manual

The pre-departure training provides information prior to the migrant’s departure on the workers’ rights and responsibilities; the destination country’s culture, laws and policies; accessing support services and complaints mechanisms; sending money home, and return and reintegration.
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Why do People Migrate?

This article provides a survey of existing theories and paradigms regarding the question of why people migrate. It espouses the view that migration is an inevitable part of the human experience.
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Information Type:
Analysis

Migration and International Human Rights Law: A Practitioners’ Guide

These guidelines presents international human rights law relevant for migrants. It is a tool aimed at empowering migrants and their representatives to make migrants’ rights a reality and to create effective systems of domestic redress for violations of their human rights.
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
International Commission of Jurists
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Safe & Sound: what States can do to ensure respect for the best interests of unaccompanied and separated children in Europe

This document aims to support States in the EU and EFTA in applying the best interests principle as a primary consideration when dealing with unaccompanied and separated children in their territory.
Date of publication:
01 October 2014
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Concluding observations on the initial report of Ghana

The Committee considered the initial report of Ghana (CMW/C/GHA/1) at its 265th and 266th meetings (CMW/C/SR.265 and SR.266), held on 2 and 3 September 2014. At its 270th meeting (CMW/C/SR.270), held on 5 September 2014, the Committee adopted the following concluding observations.
Date of publication:
26 September 2014
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Information Type:
Other

Preventing Trafficking in Persons by Addressing Demand

The paper aims to provide guidance to organizations and practitioners by mapping out the dimensions of demand as it relates specifically to trafficking in persons for labour exploitation, as well as highlighting strategies that can be used to address this aspect of the problem.
Date of publication:
01 September 2014
Source:
Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Advisory Opinion OC-21/14, "Rights and Guarantees of Children in the Context of Migration and/or in Need of International Protection"

This Advisory Opinion on migrant children (hereinafter “the request”) from the Court was requested by member-states to “determine the precise obligations of the States in relation to the possible measures to be adopted regarding children, their immigration status or the status of their parents in...
Date of publication:
19 August 2014
Source:
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

The International Law of Migrant Smuggling

Whether forced into relocation by fear of persecution, civil war, or humanitarian crisis, or pulled toward the prospect of better economic opportunities, more people are on the move than ever before.
Date of publication:
01 August 2014
Source:
Cambridge University Press
Information Type:
Other

Why Assisted Return Programmes Must Be Evaluated

With very limited monitoring and evaluation of AVRRs we know little about how well they work and whether the promised support is given. This policy brief outlines some of the compelling reasons to monitor and evaluate AVRRs.
Date of publication:
01 August 2014
Source:
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Information Type:
Policy Brief

International Migration, Human Dignity, and the Challenge of Sovereignty

Presenting the relationship between sovereignty and migration, including the misuse of sovereignty and how to reconcile it with human rights in the context of migration. This paper was presented at the 5th International Forum on Migration and Peace.
Date of publication:
11 June 2014
Source:
Center for Migration Studies
Information Type:
Working Paper

Concluding observations on the initial report of Uruguay

The Committee considered the initial report of Uruguay (CMW/C/URY/1) at its 243rd and 244th meetings (see CMW/C/SR.243 and 244), held on 31 March and 1 April 2014, and adopted the following concluding observations at its 260th meeting, held on 11 April 2014.
Date of publication:
02 May 2014
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Information Type:
Other

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