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Enhancing Africa’s Response to Transnational Organized Crime (ENACT)

Human smuggling in Africa: the creation of a new criminalised economy?

Governments need to ensure responses to migration and human smuggling don’t make it more dangerous for migrants and more lucrative for criminals.

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27 July 2020

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International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Cross Border Human Mobility Amid and After COVID-19

The paper sets out initial findings and scenarios regarding the future of cross-border human mobility, including measures that will be needed to ensure that no person, or country, is left behind.

Date of publication:

21 July 2020

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Report on ending immigration detention of children and seeking adequate reception and care for them

In the report, the Special Rapporteur examines the international legal framework protecting the human rights of migrant children, in particular regarding their right to liberty as well as to adequate reception, care and protection.

Date of publication:

20 July 2020

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UN General Assembly

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2020

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

Date of publication:

14 July 2020

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Independent Monitoring, Rapid Research and Evidence Facility (IMREF)

Exploring the Impact of COVID19 on the Vulnerabilities of Migrants on the Central Mediterranean Route

Humanitarian actors expected COVID-19 to have severe consequences for people migrating on the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR) from Sub-Saharan Africa to Libya, Tunisia and Algeria.

Date of publication:

02 July 2020

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Policy Brief: COVID-19 and People on the Move

The COVID-19 crisis presents us with an opportunity to reimagine human mobility for the benefit of all while advancing our central commitment of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind. In the pursuit of this objective, this Policy Brief offers four basic tenets to guide our collective response.

Date of publication:

01 July 2020

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United Nations (UN)

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International Organization for Migration (IOM)

No Social Exclusion in 'Social' Distancing: Leaving no Migrants Behind in the COVID-19 Response

This issue explores the multi-dimensional risks of social exclusion caused by inequities faced by different migrant groups in the COVID-19 response. While measures to combat the virus apply to all, not all migrant groups have the same set of resources and capacities to comply with the rules.

Date of publication:

13 June 2020

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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Missing Migrants and their Families - The ICRC's Recommendations to Policy-Makers

This policy paper outlines key recommendations for policy-makers on ways to prevent migrants from going missing and, when they do, how to respond to the problem.

Date of publication:

13 June 2020

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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Nepal: COVID-19 & The Return Of Migrants

Many migrant workers, most of them from Nepal, lost their employment when the Indian government imposed a strict lockdown on 25 March 2020 to contain the spread of COVID-19. In March alone, around 500,000 people crossed the border from India without any screening or other measures applied.

Date of publication:

12 June 2020

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ACAPS

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Analysis

Activities for Migrants

This booklet focuses on the activities that the ICRC carries out on behalf of vulnerable migrants and their families around the world. Examples include visits to migrants who have been detained and helping migrants re-establish contact with their families.

Date of publication:

12 June 2020

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

IOM-UNHCR Framework document on developing standard operating procedures to facilitate the identification and protection of victims of trafficking

This document intends to encourage the development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) between IOM and UNHCR at field level, and suggests a procedure for cooperation to ensure that the available expertise, capacities, and potential of each organization are effectively employed and coordinated to...

Date of publication:

01 June 2020

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Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Road Map for Digital Cooperation: Implementation of the Recommendations of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation (A/74/821)

With COVID-19 highlighting the need for digital technologies in every sector, this report by the UN Secretary-General flags migrants as among the vulnerable communities who face more challenges to being digitally connected.

Date of publication:

29 May 2020

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UN General Assembly

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International Organization for Migration (IOM)

COVID-19 Emerging Immigration, Consular and Visa Needs And Recommendations

Supporting governments with digitalizing solutions for integrated border management and ID management is an IOM priority.

Date of publication:

15 May 2020

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

How COVID-19 restrictions and the economic consequences are likely to impact migrant smuggling and cross-border trafficking in persons to Europe and North America

The unprecedented crisis that COVID-19 has suddenly unleashed upon the world is affecting all aspects of society and is likely to have an effect on the routes and characteristics of both regular and irregular migration.

Date of publication:

14 May 2020

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Analysis

Implementation of the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda: United Nations Country Team Operational Guidelines

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...

Date of publication:

01 May 2020

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UN Legal Identity Agenda Task Force

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Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

UNICEF Submission to the Thematic Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants

This document identifies key challenges to end child immigration detention despite a growing international consensus on this issue, and proposes concrete recommendations to provide adequate reception, protection and care for migrant and displaced children without resorting to detention.

Date of publication:

01 May 2020

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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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Inventory of tools, guidance, policies, statement and best practices including for COVID-19 response

At a glance This inventory provides Member States and stakeholders with relevant tools, guidance, policies, statements and best practices for responding to COVID-19.

Date of publication:

28 April 2020

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UN Network on Migration

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Social protection for migrant during the COVID-19 crisis: The right and smart choice (2020)

This blog post talks about social protection for migrants during COVID-19. Ensuring that migrants are included in policy responses can help protect this particularly vulnerable group during the crisis.

Date of publication:

28 April 2020

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World Bank Group

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Women

This policy brief from the United Nations explores how the lives of women and girls have changed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests priority measures for both immediate and long-term recovery efforts.

Date of publication:

09 April 2020

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United Nations (UN)

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