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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

The Global Compacts and Environmental Drivers of Migration

This policy brief outlines the ways in which the compacts address the drivers of migration and makes recommendations to enhance the compacts’ provisions on environmental mobility.

Date of publication:

01 July 2018

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KNOMAD

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Policy Brief

Economic Development in Africa Report 2018

The report assesses the evidence to identify policy pathways that harness the benefits of African migration and mitigate its negative effects. It argues that African migration can play a key role in the structural transformation of the continent’s economies.

Date of publication:

01 June 2018

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

UNODC Global Study on the Smuggling of Migrants 2018

The first UNODC Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants shows that migrant smuggling routes affect every part of the world. The study is based on an extensive review of existing data and literature.

Date of publication:

01 June 2018

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Analysis

Concluding observations on the initial report of Guyana

The Committee considered the initial report of Guyana at its 381st and 382nd meetings (see CMW/C/SR.381 and 382), held on 11 and 12 April 2018. At its 395th meeting, held on 20 April 2018, it adopted the present concluding observations.

Date of publication:

23 May 2018

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

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Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Understanding contemporary human smuggling as a vector in migration: A field guide for migration management and humanitarian practitioners

This guide analyses in depth the dynamics and trends of the human-smuggling industry, focusing on migration from and through the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to Europe.

Date of publication:

22 May 2018

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Analysis

Training materials on access to justice for migrant children

The set of training materials on access to justice for migrant children were developed as part of the FAIR (Fostering Access to Immigrant children’s Rights) project and were published by the materials on access to justice for migrant children (IJC).

Date of publication:

20 May 2018

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International Commission of Jurists

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

Concluding observations on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the absence of a report

In the absence of a report by the State party, the Committee considered the situation in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines with respect to the implementation of the Convention at its 383rd meeting (see CMW/C/SR.383), held on 12 April 2018.

Date of publication:

18 May 2018

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

What would make Global Skills Partnerships work in practice?

This report examines why skills partnerships have not been implemented more widely and proposes measures for making them more successful on a global scale.

Date of publication:

01 May 2018

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Racial Discrimination in the Context of Laws, Policies and Practices Concerning Citizenship, Nationality and Immigration

The report addresses the issue of racial discrimination in the context of laws, policies and practices concerning citizenship, nationality and immigration.

Date of publication:

25 April 2018

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United Nations (UN)

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): Learning Package

This tool is designed to support ILO constituents and senior government officials, among others, to establish, assess or revise system for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Date of publication:

21 April 2018

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants

The present report is the first submitted to the Human Rights Council by the mandate holder, Felipe González Morales, who assumed his functions on 1 August 2017.

Date of publication:

05 April 2018

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UN General Assembly

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Site Planning: Guidance to Reduce the Risk of Gender-Based Violence (Third edition)

This booklet is targeted at field practitioners. It provides basic information about site planning and gender-based violence risks. It also provides practical guidance for measures which can be taken to reduce risks to affected populations in and around camps and sites.

Date of publication:

01 April 2018

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Global Shelter Cluster

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

Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants in the Context of Return

On 6 March 2018, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) organized a one-day expert meeting on the theme "The human rights of migrants in the context of return".

Date of publication:

06 March 2018

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Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)

Manual on regularisations for children, young people and families

This manual is not only useful for policy makers and policy people; it gives hope to undocumented people like us across Europe.

Date of publication:

01 March 2018

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Cambridge University Press

Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia

The emergence of international human rights law and the end of the White Australia immigration policy were events of great historical moment. Yet, they were not harbingers of a new dawn in migration law.

Date of publication:

01 March 2018

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

How Blockchain can benefit migration programmes and migrants

This blog discusses the potential of Blockchain to offer cost-efficiency, transparency and accountability in migration and asylum programmes.

Date of publication:

22 February 2018

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Journal Article

Manufacturing Smugglers: From Irregular to Clandestine Mobility in the Sahara

For decades, mobility between the Sahel and northern Africa was mostly irregular, but not clandestine. Most of the border crossings were supervised and (illegally) taxed by border police; everyone knew who did what with whom, and Saharan drivers were not thought of as smugglers of people.

Date of publication:

21 February 2018

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Journal Article

How Immigrants Contribute to Developing Countries' Economies

This report is the result of a project carried out by the OECD Development Centre and the International Labour Organization, with support from the European Union.

Date of publication:

24 January 2018

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

Principles and guidelines, supported by practical guidance, on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable situations

These Principles and Guidelines provide concrete and operational guidance to assist States to design, implement and monitor migration governance measures that respect and protect the human rights of migrants in vulnerable situations.

Date of publication:

01 January 2018

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