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Ethical Trading Initiative

Base Code Guidance: Modern Slavery

Targeted at the private sector, this guide will help businesses understand key concepts, legal definitions and their responsibility to tackle modern slavery.

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01 January 2020

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Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Towards a Global Compact for Migration: A Development Perspective

A series of issue briefs explores core issues for the Global Compact for Migration, such as legal migration pathways, return migration and reintegration policies, skills partnerships, the impact of development interventions on migration, and international migration governance.

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01 January 2020

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Policy Brief

Healthy Migrants In Healthy Communities

This information sheet explains IOM’s mission and approach to health, and it gives an overview of the three programmatic areas of the Migration Health Division.

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01 January 2020

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Guidance for Municipalities

The purpose of this guidance is to assist municipal authorities in Europe in providing appropriate access to services for migrants with irregular status. It is also aimed at the public bodies which work with them including police forces, healthcare providers, and housing and education providers.

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31 December 2019

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Reasons to Remain (Part 2): Determinants of IDP Integration into Host Communities in Iraq

The purpose of this study is to identify which factors help or hinder local integration, utilizing data on perceptions and living conditions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) displaced for more than three years and data collected from host community residents.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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IOM Handbook for migrants vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse

The Handbook is intended to support case managers, service providers, communities, humanitarian and development actors, States and other actors working to provide protection and assistance to migrants vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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IOM Guidance on Referral Mechanisms

The practical guidelines contained in this publication provide guidance on how to develop and implement referral mechanisms for the protection and assistance of migrants vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Words into Action guidelines - Disaster displacement: How to reduce risk, address impacts and strengthen resilience

This guide offers practical guidance to help policymakers integrate disaster displacement and other related forms of human mobility into regional, national, sub-national and local disaster risk reduction strategies in accordance with the Sendai Framework.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI)

Protecting Human Rights of Migrants at the borders. Evidence and work of European National Human Rights Institutions

In this background paper, the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) sheds light on the findings of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) about human rights violations at the borders and how they have used their broad mandate to promote and protect migrants’ human...

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31 December 2019

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Project Development Manual for Migrants’ Associations: Global Development Agents

Based on a training module used in Italy, this manual provides training to support migrants’ and diaspora associations as they design and implement development projects in their countries of origin, following the project lifecycle.

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31 December 2019

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Debt and the Migration Experience: Insights From South-East Asia

Debt and indebtedness are central to the lives of South-East Asian migrants. Indebtedness can motivate the need for migration; migrants regularly use loans to finance costly cross-border moves, and the remittances migrants send home are often used to repay household debt.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Seven Key Elements On Building Human Rights Based Narratives On Migrants And Migration

Discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, hate speech and hate crime have a severe impact on the human rights of migrants. There is an urgent need to reframe narratives and public messaging on migration and migrants in order to uphold and promote the human rights of all migrants.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Promising Local Practices For The Enjoyment Of The Right To Health By Migrants

Migrants face barriers in accessing health services, whether due to restrictive legislation, prohibitive cost, a lack of knowledge or fear. Some local authorities and health practitioners, however, are taking action to protect the dignity of migrant children, women and men.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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Analysis

Humanitarian Service Points

The IFRC concept of humanitarian service points (HSP) refers to initiatives aiming to provide essential services to migrants experiencing vulnerabilities during their journeys – irrespective of status - without fear of arrest or being reported to the authorities.

Date of publication:

31 December 2019

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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

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Empowering Women Migrant Workers from South Asia: Toolkit for Gender-Responsive Employment and Recruitment

UN Women has developed Empowering Women Migrant Workers from South Asia: Toolkit for Gender-Responsive Employment and Recruitment. The Toolkit provides comprehensive guidance on ensuring the protection and promotion of the rights of women migrant workers throughout the labour migration cycle.

Date of publication:

03 December 2019

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UN Women

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Open Edition Journals - China Perspectives

Of Spatial and Temporal Entanglements – Narrating a (Chinese) Street in Suburban Johannesburg

A photo essay about Derrick Avenue, a lively high street in Cyrildene eastern suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Up until the early 1990s, Derrick Avenue was largely characterised by Jewish, and to a lesser extent, Greek residents as well as related spatial markers.

Date of publication:

01 December 2019

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Journal Article

Birth Registration for Every Child by 2030: Are we on track?

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.

Date of publication:

01 December 2019

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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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Universal Health Coverage “Leave No Migrant Behind"

This information sheet explains why a migrant-inclusive universal health coverage is important, how it relates to the SDGs and how IOM works together with Member States and other partners towards achieving migrant-inclusive UHC.

Date of publication:

01 December 2019

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World Migration Report 2020

The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world.

Date of publication:

29 November 2019

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