These uniform Guidelines constitute a set of practical measures designed to enhance the identification of victims of human trafficking by front-line professionals engaged in migrant and refugee reception procedures in the OSCE region.

Law-enforcement agencies, government offices, and non-governmental organizations often lack the expertise, experienced personnel, and sensitivity needed to deal effectively with the special needs of victims of trafficking. This handbook provides a political context, a methodology, and a description...

This handbook has been developed to equip professionals and volunteers who interact with migrant and refugee children to communicate in a child-friendly way about their rights and the procedures affecting them.

Council of Europe (CoE) and European Union (EU) Member States have an undeniable sovereign right to control the entry of non-nationals into their territory. While exercising border control, states have a duty to protect the fundamental rights of all people under their jurisdiction, regardless of...

This manual is designed to facilitate the training of European border and entry officials on the rights of refugees in the context of mixed migration movements. As such, it aims to build the capacity of border agencies to establish “protection-sensitive entry systems” in border areas.

IOM’s Immigration and Border Management (IBM) Division works closely with the Migration Health Division (MHD) and other departments to provide immediate as well as mid- and long-term technical assistance for the immigration, border and consular officials of concerned Member States in order to help...

GiA12 (developed by Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC)), on establishing referral procedures among key stakeholders, lists mechanisms that have been established to identify migrants' specific needs and refer individual migrants to actors that are best placed to meet them.

The objective of the present joint general comment is to provide authoritative guidance on legislative, policy and other appropriate measures that should be taken to ensure full compliance with the obligations under the Conventions to fully protect the rights of children in the context of...

The Inter-agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children are intended to guide future action and are based on international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law. They seek to ensure that all actions and decisions taken concerning separated children are anchored in a...

Approximately 50 million children can be considered ‘on the move’. Of these approximately 13 million are child refugees, 936,000 are asylum-seeking children, and 17 million children have been forcibly displaced inside their own country (Bhabha and Abel, 2019; International Organization for Migration...

This Information Note provides a broad overview about the protection of unaccompanied migrant children, including principles, protection measures and long-term options.

The purpose of this Information Note is to provide a broad overview of the right to access justice and its specific content for migrants, regardless of their legal status, and in light of States’ obligations laid down in international instruments and relevant jurisprudence.

This screening tool on identifying and addressing situations of vulnerability is intended to help guide and inform frontline workers and decision-makers on the relevance of vulnerability factors to detention decisions, referrals to alternatives to detention, open reception facilities, community...

The brochure illustrates the social and economic contributions of migrant workers for both origin and destination countries.

This report was prepared as a thematic background paper to inform discussions at the 11th AFML on how to maximize positive impacts of digitalization to promote wellbeing of migrant workers.

This paper is part of the IOM Migration Research Leaders Syndicate’s contribution toward the Global Compact for Migration. It is one of 26 papers that make up a consolidated Syndicate publication, which focuses on proposing ways to address complex and pressing issues in contemporary international...

This report is produced by UN Women’s Economic Empowerment Section for the “Promoting and Protecting Women Migrant Workers’ Labour and Human Rights” Project, supported by the European Union. This report is the first of three designed to build on the growing body of scholarship pertaining to gender...

This paper analyzes the implications of migration rules, regulations, and policies in Sri Lanka, in the country’s efforts to integrate gender perspectives into migration issues. The study focuses on three policies: the imposition of maximum chargeable amounts that agents can collect for recruiting...

This compendium from the ILO collects information on labour market policies that have been implemented in select Latin American countries since the 1990s. The policies are described in terms of main components, target group, the number of participants, the level of public expenditures, among other...

This Toolkit provides information and tools for development partners to integrate migration – in all its forms – into development‐centred plans, programmes and projects linked to COVID‑19 socio‐economic response. The Toolkit is framed around the pillars of the “UN Framework for the Immediate Socio...