Coming Together for Refugee Education' is the fifth annual education report from UNHCR. The 2019 data in the report is based on reporting from twelve countries hosting more than half of the world’s refugee children.

Building on the practice of strengthening national child protection systems and on 10 years of implementation of UNHCR’s Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child (Best Interests Determination (BID) Guidelines) (May 2008), these updated BIP Guidelines replace both the 2008 BID...

Recent large-scale movements of refugees and migrants have drawn attention to the need for global and coordinated action for peaceful, orderly and comprehensive approaches to refugees and migrants. UNICEF has joined the voices of many who have called for policies and programmes that address the care...

This paper is part of a series of short “think pieces” by IOM’s Migration Research High Level Advisers on the potential changes, impacts and implications for migration and mobility arising from COVID-19. Designed to spark thinking on policy and programmatic responses to COVID-19 as the impacts...

Read the statement by UN Secretary-General for #MigrantsDay.

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. This document recognizes that applying this principle may take a variety of forms and thus does not...

The aim of this practical guide is to help to identify and highlight the key milestones and flashpoints for the implementation of the best interests of the child. This is done in order to support EU+ States in applying the best interests principle and enhancing the guarantees within asylum...

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...

Overview and resources on migration and child labour, compiled by ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).

This webpage provides a list of projects involving child and youth migrants that are linked to the Global Forum on Migration and Development.  

The Global Migration Group´s page on child, adolescent and youth migrants provides links to relevant publications, documents and news.

The Migration Data Portal thematic page on child and young migrants provides key facts and figures, as well as discussing the definitions of these groups. It also links to the main data sources on this topic and provides information on the strengths and limitations of the data available.

Virtual Panel Discussion on "GCM Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies", jointly being organized by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Philippines, Cross-Regional Centre for Refugee and Migration (CCRM), Lebanon, Global Research Forum on...

Corinne Prince St. Amand, Director General, Integration Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Department, Canada

Session: Contrasting national approaches

Autumn Academy 2018: Opportunities and challenges in cooperation between government and civil society in the management of migration in...

José Dolores Suazo Mejía (Don Lolo), president of COFAMICENH (Committee of Families of Disappeared Migrants from Central Honduras) is one of this year's co-chairs of the Global Forum on Migration and Development Civil Society Mechanism. In this short video interview he talks about the expectations...

This compilation is the key output of the three-year multi-stakeholder consultative process to implement the GP20 Plan of Action for Advancing Prevention, Protection and Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons. The initiative focused on how the Guiding Principles and other international standards...

The report includes a series of essays looking at the most salient and polemical issues facing the refugee and migration sectors with respect to mixed flows, as well as a series of interviews with individuals and officials closely associated with or relevant to the sector and its challenges. The...

The organization is an international NGO, with branches in Paris and New York City, a growing network of over 80 organizations from over 40 countries around the world, and a series of successful projects supported by a dedicated global staff. The approach is simple: they believe no one can see the...

Useful set of resources (publications, podcasts, videos, educational materials) that provide analysis of humanitarian situations and multi-stakeholder interventions from across the globe. 

Since its founding in 2008, the Cities of Migration program has been providing thought leadership and showcasing good ideas in immigrant integration to help practitioners around the world contribute to inclusion and urban prosperity.