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Gender Impact Assessment – Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit

EIGE has developed a toolkit that helps institutions evaluate where their policies are succeeding or failing in addressing gender inequalities. It provides examples from EU Member States on their gender impact assessments.
Date of publication:
01 January 2016
Source:
European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
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Assessment Toolkit: Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Organ Removal

The toolkit aims to provide both a general overview of trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal and specific tools to assist concerned actors with assessing the phenomenon.
Date of publication:
31 December 2015
Source:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
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Behind Closed Doors: Protecting and Promoting the Human Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers in an Irregular Situation

This publication sheds light on the often hidden experience of irregular migrant domestic workers, and challenges Governments to take appropriate protective measures. It emphasizes that migrant domestic workers, regardless of whether they are male or female, children or adults, in a regular or...
Date of publication:
31 December 2015
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
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Addressing Human Trafficking and Exploitation in Times of Crisis- Evidence and Recommendations for Further Action to Protect Vulnerable and Mobile Populations I December 2015

The report recommends that human trafficking in times of crisis be urgently included in the humanitarian community, with support from both emergency and development donor communities.
Date of publication:
31 December 2015
Source:
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning: A Handbook for Policy-makers and Practitioners

This Handbook, initiated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and further developed with the contributions of the Global Migration Group (GMG), is the result of a collaborative and fruitful cooperation between the 16 GMG agencies. The Handbook is divided into three main sections...
Date of publication:
12 October 2015
Source:
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Policy Guide on Identifying Victims of Trafficking

The policy guides aim to provide an overview of international and regional standards for the identification and protection of victims of trafficking, drawing extensively on examples of good practices from Bali Process member countries. It targets policy makers and practitioners.
Date of publication:
01 May 2015
Source:
The Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process)
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Rescue at sea: A guide to principles and practice as applied to migrants and refugees

Practical guidance on principles and practices regarding rescue at sea as applied to refugees and migrants.
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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Policy Guide on Criminalizing Migrant Smuggling

An introductory guide for policy makers and practitioners on how to implement international legal obligations to criminalize migrant smuggling at the domestic level.
Date of publication:
01 January 2015
Source:
The Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process)
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Pre-departure training curriculum - Viet Nam to Malaysia: Facilitator's Manual

The pre-departure training provides information prior to the migrant’s departure on the workers’ rights and responsibilities; the destination country’s culture, laws and policies; accessing support services and complaints mechanisms; sending money home, and return and reintegration. The curriculum...
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
International Labour Organization (ILO)
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Migration and International Human Rights Law: A Practitioners’ Guide

These guidelines presents international human rights law relevant for migrants. It is a tool aimed at empowering migrants and their representatives to make migrants’ rights a reality and to create effective systems of domestic redress for violations of their human rights.
Date of publication:
31 December 2014
Source:
International Commission of Jurists
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Safe & Sound: what States can do to ensure respect for the best interests of unaccompanied and separated children in Europe

This document aims to support States in the EU and EFTA in applying the best interests principle as a primary consideration when dealing with unaccompanied and separated children in their territory. This document recognizes that applying this principle may take a variety of forms and thus does not...
Date of publication:
01 October 2014
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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Preventing Trafficking in Persons by Addressing Demand

The paper aims to provide guidance to organizations and practitioners by mapping out the dimensions of demand as it relates specifically to trafficking in persons for labour exploitation, as well as highlighting strategies that can be used to address this aspect of the problem. The paper also...
Date of publication:
01 September 2014
Source:
Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons
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Advisory Opinion OC-21/14, "Rights and Guarantees of Children in the Context of Migration and/or in Need of International Protection"

This Advisory Opinion on migrant children (hereinafter “the request”) from the Court was requested by member-states to “determine the precise obligations of the States in relation to the possible measures to be adopted regarding children, their immigration status or the status of their parents in...
Date of publication:
19 August 2014
Source:
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
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IML Information Note on the Principle of Non-Refoulement

The purpose of this Information Note is to provide a general overview of the principle of non-refoulement and to explain how the principle applies to all migrants. To this end, the Information Note can be used as a tool by those dealing with border management or returns of migrants to avoid the...
Date of publication:
01 April 2014
Source:
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders

The OHCHR’s recommended principles and guidelines provides normative guidance on how to translate the international human rights framework into concrete measures that uphold the rights of migrants at international borders. They are intended to inform the work of States, international agencies and...
Date of publication:
02 January 2014
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
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Self-Assessment tool for nations to increase preparedness for cross-border implications of crises

The challenges for border-related agencies during crises are numerous. This document contributes to overall response preparedness by promoting existing tools and pointing national authorities to international and regional assistance frameworks.
Date of publication:
01 January 2014
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Gender on the Move: Working on the Migration-Development Nexus from a Gender Perspective

Around the world, a record number of women are now migrating to seek work and better lives. For many, migration yields these benefits; for others, it carries dangerous risks, such as exploitation in domestic work, and vulnerability to violence. Migration policies and practices have been slow to...
Date of publication:
31 December 2013
Source:
UN Women
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Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Fundamental Rights Training for Border Guards

The goal of the manual is to support trainers in their duty to prepare border guards on how to conform to their regional and international human rights obligations. The manual demonstrates how fundamental rights permeate and advance their professional lives.
Date of publication:
31 December 2013
Source:
Frontex
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

Regional Guidelines for the Preliminary Identification and Referral Mechanisms for Migrant Populations in Vulnerable Situations

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...
Date of publication:
04 June 2013
Source:
Regional Conference on Migration (RCM)
Information Type:
Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

International Framework for Action To Implement the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

The purpose of the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol is to “prevent and combat the smuggling of migrants, as well as to promote cooperation among States Parties to that end, while protecting the rights of smuggled migrants” (article 2). In other words, the Protocol sets out to promote cooperation to...
Date of publication:
01 January 2013
Source:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
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Guidelines/Toolkits/Manuals

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