Latest UNICEF research, technical guidance, policy positions and communication materials related to migrant and displaced children. 

The South Texas Human Rights Center is a community-based organization in Falfurrias, Texas dedicated to the promotion, protection, defense and exercise of human rights and dignity in South Texas.  It builds water stations in the desert and supports search and rescue efforts and forensic recovery and...

The Mediterranean Missing project was a one-year research project running from September 2015 until October 2016, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom. The project was a collaboration between the University of York, City University London, and the International...

Colibrí works with medical examiners to compare information families provide about missing migrants as well as DNA samples with unidentified remains recovered along the US-Mexico border in the hopes of giving families the answers they so deserve. Beyond forensic justice work, Colibrí and impacted...

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF)’s Proyecto Frontera is aimed at creating a transnational regional system for the exchange of forensic information on missing migrants and unidentified remains along the Central America-Mexico-US migration corridor.

Website in Spanish only.

The Last Rights Project is creating a new framework of respect for the rights of missing and dead refugees and migrants and bereaved family members. It advocates with refugee and migrant-led organisations and promotes self-advocacy, to transform research and legal principles into deliverable, real...

This report draws on data collected by the Mixed Migration Centre’s 4Mi monitors along the route to map the places where migrants interviewed in 2018 and 2019 most frequently reported deaths and other human rights violations. The recommendations included in this report call for measures to hold...

Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. The chapters of this collection, co-authored by researchers and practitioners, provide the first interdisciplinary overview of this contested field.

This policy paper outlines key recommendations for policy-makers on ways to prevent migrants from going missing and, when they do, how to respond to the problem. 

At the GCM Stocktaking Meeting in Mexico in December 2017, the Co-Chairs presented the GFMD Thematic Recollection (2007-2017) – the GFMD’s final contribution to the GCM, consolidating 10 years of GFMD discussions and cooperation around migration and development. In this way, the GFMD served as one...

A series of issue briefs explores core issues for the Global Compact for Migration, such as legal migration pathways, return migration and reintegration policies, skills partnerships, the impact of development interventions on migration, and international migration governance.

The training is intended to support the successful implementation of the GCM, which will in turn help accelerate the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. While the training is designed primarily for UN Country Teams, it also recognises the essential participation of other...

Unanimously adopted by all 193 Member States at the UN General Assembly of 19 September 2016, the Declaration expresses the will to save  lives, protect  rights and share responsibility on migration and asylum. The Declaration contains several provisions on child migration. 

This report series highlights key trends in the data available on deaths during migration, and also urgent thematic issues linked to these. These include reports focusing on identification and tracing of missing migrants, data on migrant deaths, and missing migrant children.

The report focuses on making migration work for all, emphasizing its links to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report highlights: (a) options for Member States to help migrants fulfil their economic and social potential; (b) steps to promote regular migration; and (c) policies to...

This report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions focuses on the mass casualties of refugees and migrants in the course of their flight. It addresses killings by both State and non-State actors, and denounces a quasi-generalized...

The OHCHR’s page on enforced disappearances of migrants provides stories of families searching for missing migrants, reports and guiding principles linked to the issue of enforced disappearances of migrants.

ICMP’s Online Inquiry Center (OIC) is a tool to provide information or obtain information about a missing person. It is an online resource that can be accessed by families of the missing and others. 

The present document outlines the applicability of the Global Compact in preventing and responding to COVID-19, for States, the UN system and other stakeholders, highlighting instances of promising practices as useful models to draw from.

The COVID-19 crisis presents us with an opportunity to reimagine human mobility for the benefit of all while advancing our central commitment of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind. In the pursuit of this objective, this Policy Brief offers four basic tenets to guide our collective response.