Knowledge Platform

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Policy Brief

Education, Children on the move and Inclusion in National Education Systems

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.

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14 February 2022

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Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes the experiences of children on the move

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?...

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07 September 2021

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Talent on the Move

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.

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15 July 2021

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Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States

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.

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01 February 2021

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The Child’s Right to a Nationality and Childhood Statelessness: Texts and Materials

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.

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18 December 2020

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A child is a child: Protecting children on the move from violence, abuse and exploitation

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.

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14 December 2020

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Guidance for assessing the situation of children on the move in a national context

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.

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01 October 2020

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What Works to Protect Children on the Move

Approximately 50 million children can be considered ‘on the move’.

Date of publication:

30 July 2020

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UNICEF Submission to the Thematic Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants

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.

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01 May 2020

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Modelo de cuidados alternativos para niñas, niños y adolescentes migrantes, solicitantes de asilo y refugiados en México: guía para su implementación

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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International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Guidance to respect children’s rights in return policies and practices

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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Birth Registration for Every Child by 2030: Are we on track?

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.

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01 December 2019

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains

This report is the first attempt by international organizations to measure child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains.

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12 November 2019

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UNICEF Working Paper: Alternatives to Immigration Detention of Children

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.

Date of publication:

01 February 2019

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United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

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Working Paper

Urban Profiling

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.

Date of publication:

31 December 2018

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Other

A Right to be Heard

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.

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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.

Date of publication:

01 November 2017

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Education uprooted for every migrant, refugee and displaced child, education

This report provides essential data and information on educational challenges faced by nearly 50 million uprooted children around the world.

Date of publication:

01 September 2017

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The way forward to strengthened policies and practices for unaccompanied and separated children in Europe

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.

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01 July 2017

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