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

Coming Together For Refugee Education. Education Report 2020

Coming Together for Refugee Education' is the fifth annual education report from UNHCR. The 2019 data in the report is based on reporting from twelve countries hosting more than half of the world’s refugee children.

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31 December 2019

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Debt and the Migration Experience: Insights From South-East Asia

Debt and indebtedness are central to the lives of South-East Asian migrants. Indebtedness can motivate the need for migration; migrants regularly use loans to finance costly cross-border moves, and the remittances migrants send home are often used to repay household debt.

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31 December 2019

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Progress of the world’s women

UN Women’s flagship report, “Progress of the world’s women 2019–2020: Families in a changing world”, assesses the reality of families today in the context of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and social transformation. The report features global, regional, and national data.

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31 December 2019

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UN Women

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Effective Return and Reintegration of Migrant Workers with Special Focus on ASEAN Member States

This report was prepared as the background document for the ASEAN Workshop on Reintegration Programmes for Returning Migrant Workers (27–28 August 2019) in Yogyakarta, organized by the Ministry of Manpower, Government of Indonesia, and the ILO TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme.

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31 December 2019

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Migration Governance Indicators: A Global Perspective

This report constitutes a first global overview of the state of national migration governance across the world. It analyses MGI data to show and discuss policy trends in a number of policy areas that relate to migration (health, education, security and economy among others).

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01 December 2019

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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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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World Migration Report 2020

The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world.

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29 November 2019

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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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International Social Security Association

Ten global challenges for social security – 2019

This flagship report demonstrates how social security institutions worldwide are innovating to adapt to the digital economy and new forms of work, tackle demographic changes, extending coverage and meeting growing public expectations. The last chapter is focused on the protection of migrant workers.

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14 October 2019

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Promoting Development Approaches to Migration and Displacement - UNDP's Four Specific Focus Areas

This report describes the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s areas of work on migration and displacement. It explains linkages of this work with UNDP's Strategic Plan 2018-2021 and maps out connections with the Sustainable Development Goals.

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11 October 2019

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World Migration Report 2020: Chapter 6 - Migration, Inclusion and Social Cohesion: Challenges, Recent Developments and Opportunities

Migrants’ inclusion has always been an important part of the migration phenomenon, but it is particularly complex in today’s increasingly globalized world and diverse societies.

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01 October 2019

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Fostering cooperation between local authorities and civil society actors in the integration and social inclusion of migrants and refugees

This report explores how local authorities and civil society organisations can create effective integration models and cooperate in fostering more inclusive social services for migrants.

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01 June 2019

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Eurodiocania

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United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Quadrennial report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Almost four years after the international community adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the third meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is a propitious occasion to take...

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01 June 2019

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General Principles and Operational Guidelines For Fair Recruitment and Definition of Recruitment Fees and Related Costs

This document brings together the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment (“principles and guidelines”) and the definition of recruitment fees and related costs. The principles and guidelines were developed by a Tripartite Meeting of Experts, held in September 2016.

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22 May 2019

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Building Partnerships for Effectively Managing Labour Migration: Lessons from Asian Countries

This report analyzes labor migration trends in Asia and emphasizes the importance of partnerships to promote effective labor migration management.

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02 April 2019

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Access to the Labour Market for Admitted Migrant Workers in Asia and Related Corridors

This report aims to help policy makers and stakeholders develop informed strategies and programmes supporting greater flexibility and decent work for migrant workers while enhancing labour market efficiency and labour migration governance.

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07 February 2019

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Comparing and contrasting the war on drugs and the emerging war on migrant smugglers

There are those who seek to apply the experience of the war on drugs to the emerging war on migrant smugglers to warn that such a confrontation carries high costs, low chances of success and would likely lead to an escalation of violence against the migrants themselves.

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01 February 2019

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Mixed Migration Centre

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018

The 2018 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fourth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons.

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07 January 2019

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