The Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons is one of the special mechanisms overseen by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The website presents information on resolutions, missions’ reports, press released and other activities of...

Responding to the human rights challenges of migration is a priority for the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions. The website provides access to a variety of resources and information related to migration and human rights in the Asia Pacific region. 

The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants is an independent expert appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The mandate was created in 1999 by the Commission on Human Rights, pursuant to resolution 1999/44. The website for the UN Special Rapporteur has the full repository...

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is a leading institution in the field of migration policy. Its main work is on immigration and integration policies in North America and Europe, where its two offices are located, but it also remains active around the world, and takes a global and comparative...

The mandate of the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Migrants is focused on respecting and guaranteeing the rights of migrants and their families, asylum seekers, refugees, stateless persons, victims of human trafficking, internally displaced persons and other vulnerable groups of people in the...

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency provides updates, focus papers, research and toolkits on a variety of human rights issues relevant to migrant rights in Europe, with a specific focus on borders, child protection, irregular migration, return, immigration detention, integration, trafficking and labour...

Human Rights Watch investigates rights violations arising when countries try to contain or divert the migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers at or within their borders. Their page on migrants provides links to videos, reports and news on this topic.

This page provides an overview of treaties and data relevant to migrant rights under international law, including primarily human rights law but also refugee law, transnational criminal law such as human trafficking and smuggling, humanitarian law and labour law.

Amnesty International conducts research on the human rights violations faced by migrants around the world. Search results includes news, research and campaign on the human rights of migrants. They can be filtered by topic, including “migrants”.

The Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) is a leading source for independent and high quality data, information, research and analysis on mixed migration. The MMC aims to increase understanding of mixed migration, to positively impact global and regional migration policies, to inform evidence-based...

The International Migration Law Unit was established within IOM to strengthen and promote the Organization’s involvement in International Migration Law (IML). A key objective of the Unit is to encourage dissemination and understanding both within IOM and amongst IOM counterparts of the international...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) produces a range of reports and publications on topics related to the human rights of migrants, which provide information and policy guidance to Governments, national institutions, civil society, the general public and the...

The Universal Human Rights Index (UHRI) is designed to facilitate access to human rights recommendations issued by international human rights mechanisms, including the Treaty Bodies established under the international human rights treaties as well as the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic...

The CMW/CRC Joint General Comments provides guidance on the human rights of migrant children at all stages of migration. It was adopted at the same time as joint general comment No. 3 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No...

Parliamentarians have a critical role to play to ensure a meaningful, balanced and informed response to migration. This handbook provides a step-by-step overview of the conditions, issues, tools and policy responses regarding international migration that parliamentarians need to understand to...

This report provides an impact evaluation of Facebook campaigns aimed at better informing potential irregular migrants in three West African countries: Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal.

This study was undertaken on behalf of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD), to advance understanding of the connection between the slow onset adverse effects of climate change, human rights, and...

This article provides an overview of online migration campaigns conducted by organizations and governments and lays out limitations in their effectiveness, while also calling for more rigorous impact evaluations in this field.

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. UN Human...

This report section, as part of the report titled “Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean Trends, risks, development and governance”, summarizes the key findings from a literature review as well as impact evaluations on the effectiveness of awareness-raising campaigns. It...