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Annex to Policy Brief: COVID-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholders Do?

This Annex aims at revisiting some of the promising responses on COVID-19 and immigration detention identified in the Policy Brief published by the UN Network on Migration in April 2020, including obstacles in implementation that have emerged since.

Date of publication:

01 February 2021

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

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Guidelines on the Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum-Seekers and Alternatives to Detention

These Guidelines are intended to provide guidance to governments, parliamentarians, legal practitioners, decision-makers, including the judiciary, as well as other international and national bodies working on detention and asylum matters, including non-governmental organisations, national human...

Date of publication:

11 December 2020

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Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Migration, Human Rights And Governance: Handbook For Parlamentarians

Parliamentarians have a critical role to play to ensure a meaningful, balanced and informed response to migration.

Date of publication:

07 December 2020

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Report of the First Global Online Peer Learning Exchange: How to Sustain and Expand the Use of Alternatives to Immigration Detention in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Report of the First Global Online Peer Learning Exchange on Alternatives to Immigration Detention (ATDs), which was held on 17 November 2020 and had the participation of 117 participants, including more than 60 officials from 31 governments.

Date of publication:

17 November 2020

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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, Report of the Secretary General

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...

Date of publication:

26 October 2020

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United Nations (UN)

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Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM): Booklet

This booklet aims to serve as a practical guide to implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) by exploring each of the 23 GCM objectives to break the Compact down into accessible parts with ideas for implementation.

Date of publication:

15 October 2020

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Policy Brief: The Global Compact for Migration (GCM): Well Governed Migration as an Essential Element of Effective COVID-19 Response

The present document outlines the applicability of the Global Compact in preventing and responding to COVID-19, for States, the UN system and other stakeholders, highlighting instances of promising practices as useful models to draw from.

Date of publication:

21 August 2020

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Policy Brief

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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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

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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Policy Brief

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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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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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Other

COVID-19 and the Human Rights of Migrants: Guidance

The current public health crisis caused by COVID-19 disproportionately affects people and communities who are already in vulnerable and marginalised situations.

Date of publication:

07 April 2020

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

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