The 2018 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fourth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. It covers 142 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons...

This pilot study looks at the potential of using harmonized census data to monitor progress towards the SDG disaggregation goal at the global level and assess to what extent migrants may be “left behind.”

This report from looks at the linkages between the SDGs and UNHCR’s statelessness mandate and the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness in 10 Years.

This report presents information on levels and trends in international migration, including refugees and asylum seekers, for regions and countries of the world, the state of international migration policies of the Member States, and the ratification and adoption status of migration-related legal...

This report presents estimates at country, regional, and global levels of the number of unregistered children, assessing what policy measures will be needed to achieve universal birth registration by 2030. The publication points to stronger civil registration systems as the most effective strategy...

This World Bank report, which focuses on three regions, finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050. Without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 million people—or around 2.8 percent of the population of these three...

IOM Outlook on Migration, Environment and Climate Change aims to bring together in one easy-to-access reference document the knowledge accrued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and to present IOM’s role, understanding and approach to environmental migration.

This paper aims to inform policymakers of the complex dynamics of climate-induced migration in LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS. It provides an overview of the migration and climate change nexus in each group of countries and proposes ways forward to address it.

This report examines migration trends around the world—both internal and international—in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. It finds that environmental change will have an influence on a range of economic, social and political drivers which themselves affect migration and...

This report examines the progress made in 2018 for the implementation of IOM’s Strategic Work Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience 2017–2020, adopted three years ago. The findings presented are grounded in data collected from 65 IOM country offices worldwide.

This report addresses a gap in the existing literature on gender and migration by highlighting the situation facing single male refugees. In particular, it focuses on the context of unaccompanied adolescent boys in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Greece, with the aim of identifying potential gaps in...

This report looks at women migrant care workers who provide home-based personal care, whose work is increasingly in demand as ageing in industrialized economies intensifies. Its findings show that despite their contributions to global public health, the workers themselves are exposed to many health...

This document brings together the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment (“principles and guidelines”) and the definition of recruitment fees and related costs. The principles and guidelines were developed by a Tripartite Meeting of Experts, held in September 2016.

This report constitutes a source of information on the current state of labour migration governance challenges, bilateral agreements on labour migration, regional labour migration and mobility and fair recruitment.

In the report we collate, and draw out key findings from, a series of twelve ODI policy briefings which analyse the interrelationship between migration and key development areas. Each briefing explores how the links between migration and these different development issues affect the achievement of...

This report and the research underlying it are based on more than five years of collaborations in the framework of the Technical Working Group on Policy and Institutional Coherence within the Global Knowledge Partnerships on Migration and Development (KNOMAD). Considering target 10.7 of the...

The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 73/195, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General, drawing on the United Nations Network on Migration, to report to the Assembly on a biennial basis on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and...

This report is based on information from key informant interviews (KIIs); participant and non-participant observation of relevant remote meetings and webinars; content analysis of the GCR and the GRF pledges; and content analysis of NGO, UN, and other stakeholder documents on COVID-19.

This report summarizes the main findings from a wider report that mapped private-sector activities relevant to migrants and explored how private and public-sector actors can engage with migrants at various stages of the migration cycle. It presents entry points for donors and governments aiming to...

The report looks at how the Compact is being referred to and implemented in the very particular time of not one but three COVID-related global crises. It finds that the crises have both necessitated and generated vibrant multi-actor exchange pertaining to GCM matters.