Close to 190 countries are set to adopt the groundbreaking UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Among its many features, the Compact recognizes the contributions of migrants to the development of their host and origin countries. Migrant workers fill gaps in the labour market in...

The discussion paper reviews three types of migration, namely forced, labour and environmental migration. It then analyses its consequences for migrants, host and origin countries. It identifies the implications that these forms of migration have for different aspects of the Technical, Vocational...

The guide aims to help skills decision-makers and practitioners assess to what extent their Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system is currently excluding certain individuals or groups, identifies underlying reasons, and provides practical ideas on what could be done to redress...

This policy brief focuses on how mainstream Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and skills development systems can contribute to improving the labour market situation of migrant workers.

This book explores the realities, experiences and discourses of highly-skilled migrants, thereby examining the divides between those from the Global South and North.

This report discusses the characteristics of Global Skill Partnerships, the timeliness of promoting their implementation and ten core lessons for successfully building such partnerships.

The European Training Foundation is a European Union agency that helps transition and developing countries harness the potential of their human capital through the reform of education, training and labour market systems, and in the context of the EU's external relations policy.

The platform aims to respond systematically and effectively in supporting developing countries’ demand to connect, learn and collaborate with potential partners. It serves as a consolidated South-South solutions platform for Southern partners in the UN system and acts as a one-stop-shop for all...

Video message by António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, on International Migrants Day (18 December 2019).

In order to respond to a growing-policy need for a common approach to promoting the inclusion of migrants and refugees that recognizes their contribution to development, UNITAR, together with some of its partners, has been working on different initiatives. These are aimed at strengthening the...

You've heard about the Global Compact for Migration? What's it about?

Este guía está diseñado a venezolanas y venezolanos en el contexto de la respuesta humanitaria de Brasil. Contiene informaciones prácticas sobre documentos y distintos tipos de derechos.

Only available in Spanish.

The aim of this guide is to assist those who provide assistance to migrants, refugees, victims of human trafficking and returned Brazilians, in a more practical and objective way, especially in the border area. Only available in Portuguese.

The Regional Guidelines provide concrete recommendations on how States can identify persons in need of international protection and how to link this identification made at the border with concrete protection measures available in each jurisdiction. In other words, they suggest practical ways to go...

This handbook focuses on family reunification with children, including unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children in the member states of the Council of Europe. 

The Guide, a product of a consultative process, outlines action undertaken by stakeholders in the referral and counter referral assistance route, giving due regard to the vulnerabilities of different migrant groups and aims to be used as tool in the processes of preliminary identification of...

Effective and efficient provision of information to migrants is decisive for migrants’ access to procedures, international protection and remedies but also for their future integration. However, qualitative data collected by the National Human Rights Institutions in Europe shows that there is still...

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.