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The purpose of this document is to translate UNICEF’s Agenda for Action to the local level. The recommendations are just an illustration of concrete actions that local actors can take – and are already taking – to advance the rights of every refugee, migrant and IDP child living under their...
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23 February 2022
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Today, the world is facing compounding humanitarian, environmental and economic crises that have spurred the migration and displacement of millions of children and their families. The number of internally displaced children, refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers and in some cases, returnees, has...
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14 February 2022
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Age plays a critical role in a child’s migration, but how will gender mediate that experience? Which gender-specific vulnerabilities, needs, and opportunities influence the lives of girls and boys on the move? This report reviews the existing evidence base – official statistics and quantitative and...
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07 September 2021
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Youth on the move across continents represent a unique, yet largely untapped pool of talent, ideas and entrepreneurship. Often resilient, highly motivated and with experience overcoming adversity, migrant and displaced youth have the potential to help solve some of our greatest challenges. Yet...
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15 July 2021
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With a focus on practical solutions and promising practices in the US and from around the globe, the report seeks to bridge the worlds of international child rights and protection, immigration and domestic child welfare. It illustrates how reception, care and services for unaccompanied migrant...
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01 February 2021
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This Texts and Materials book on ‘The Child’s Right to a Nationality and Childhood Statelessness’ complements the UNICEF and ISI Advanced intensive training on childhood statelessness & the child’s right to a nationality. The book largely comprises excerpts from relevant texts and materials – books...
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18 December 2020
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This report shows how the lack of safe and legal pathways for refugee and migrant children feeds a booming market for human smuggling and puts them at risk of violence, abuse and exploitation. Building on recent UNICEF policy proposals, it sets out ways that governments can better protect these...
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14 December 2020
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Evidence from multiple contexts clearly demonstrates that children on the move – and the generations that follow them – live better lives and contribute to society when they have opportunities to learn and develop wherever they are. When children thrive, both the countries they leave behind and...
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01 October 2020
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Approximately 50 million children can be considered ‘on the move’. Of these approximately 13 million are child refugees, 936,000 are asylum-seeking children, and 17 million children have been forcibly displaced inside their own country (Bhabha and Abel, 2019; International Organization for Migration...
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30 July 2020
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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.
This document identifies different options for alternative care for unaccompanied migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children and adolescents in Mexico, with the aim of implementing a model of alternative care for these children and young people in this country. Only available in Spanish.
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31 December 2019
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This document provides guidance for state authorities on the design and implementation of return procedures that are child rights compliant.
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31 December 2019
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This report presents estimates at country, regional, and global levels of the number of unregistered children, assessing what policy measures will be needed to achieve universal birth registration by 2030. The publication points to stronger civil registration systems as the most effective strategy...
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01 December 2019
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This report is the first attempt by international organizations to measure child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains. This report seeks to inform public and business policies and practices in order to prevent child labour, forced labour and human trafficking linked to...
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12 November 2019
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This working paper sets the context of immigration detention of children, presenting its negative effects and giving recommendations on how to prevent it, affirming that it is possible, only that it requires political will and states to engage actors beyond migration and border control authorities.
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01 February 2019
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Urban profiles (examples available from Lebanon, but also other countries) including focus on different sectors such as Water and Sanitation, education or health as well as other services; the profiles including spatial data collection at neighborhood level.
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31 December 2018
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For many uprooted children, the journey from home can be profoundly lonely and plagued by challenges that put their health, education and futures at risk. Nearly 40 per cent of the migrants and refugees aged 14–24 who participated in the poll said they received no help at all during their journey in...
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01 December 2018
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Beyond Borders: How to make the global compacts on migration and refugees work for uprooted children
Recent large-scale movements of refugees and migrants have drawn attention to the need for global and coordinated action for peaceful, orderly and comprehensive approaches to refugees and migrants. UNICEF has joined the voices of many who have called for policies and programmes that address the care...
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01 November 2017
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This report provides essential data and information on educational challenges faced by nearly 50 million uprooted children around the world. It notes that some of these children and their families migrate in pursuit of better education or job opportunities, while others are forced from their homes...
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01 September 2017
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This paper captures concrete recommendations for efficient, lean, and harmonised processes which ensure children are protected and can access procedures and solutions in accordance with their best interests. It is a result of a consultative process carried out by UNHCR, UNICEF and IRC with around...
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01 July 2017
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