External Documents & Multimedia

UN Framework Documents and Guidelines on Migrants & Refugees

• Global Compact for Migration and Global Compact on Refugees: currently being negotiated (see our “Global Compact Processes” page for the latest draft of each)
• New York Declaration: Outcome Document of the 19 September 2016 High-Level Summit on Refugees and Migrants (August 2016)
• OHCHR Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders (September 2014)
• OCHA Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (September 2004)
• Guidelines on Policies and Procedures in dealing with Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum, UNHCR (1997)
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990)
• UN Conventions on Statelessness (1954 and 1961)
• Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951 and 1967)

Reports of UN Secretaries-General and their Special Representatives for International Migration

• SG Guterres’ Making Migration Work for All, input to the drafting of the Global Compact for Migration (January 2018)
• SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #6 for the GCM: Irregular migration and regular pathways, including decent work, labour mobility, recognition of skills and qualifications and other relevant measures (September 2017)
• SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #5 for the GCM: Smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons and contemporary forms of slavery, including appropriate identification, protection and assistance to migrants and trafficking victims (August 2017)
• SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #4 for the GCM: Contributions of migrants and diasporas to all dimensions of sustainable development, including remittances and portability of earned benefits (July 2017)
• SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #3 for the GCM: International cooperation and governance of migration in all its dimensions, including at borders, on transit, entry, return, readmission, integration and reintegration (June 2017)
• SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #2 for the GCM: Addressing drivers of migration, including adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters and human-made crises, through protection and assistance, sustainable development, poverty eradication, conflict prevention and resolution (May 2017)
• SRSG Arbour’s Issue Brief #1 for the GCM: Human rights of all migrants, social inclusion, cohesion and all forms of discrimination, including racism, xenophobia and intolerance (April 2017)
• SRSG Sutherland Report, input to the GCM with recommendations for
  managing migration better through international cooperation (February 2017)
• SG Ban’s In Safety and Dignity: Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants (April 2016)
• SG Ban’s The Road to Dignity by 2030 (December 2014)

Reports of OHCHR’s Special Rapporteurs on the Human Rights of Migrants

• SR Crépeau’s Report on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility (2017)
• SR Crépeau’s Report on the impact of bilateral and multilateral trade
  agreements on the human rights of migrants (2016)
• SR Crépeau’s Banking on mobility over a generation: follow-up to the regional study on the management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human rights of migrants(2015)
• SR Crépeau’s Report on the labour exploitation of migrants (2014)
• SR Crépeau’s Report on management of the external borders of the
  European Union and its impact on the human rights of
  migrants, a regional study (2013)
• SR Crépeau’s Report on the detention of migrants in an irregular situation (2012)
• SR Bustamante’s Report on irregular migration and criminalization of migrants; protection of children in the migration process; the right to housing and health of migrants (2011)
• SR Bustamante’s Report on enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants (2010)
• SR Bustamante’s Report on protection of children in the context of migration (2009)
• SR Bustamante’s Report on criminalization of irregular migration (2008)
• SR Rodríguez Pizarro’s Report on racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia/Migrant women and unaccompanied children (December 2004)
• SR Rodríguez Pizarro’s Report on vulnerability of migrant domestic workers (January 2004)
• SR Rodríguez Pizarro’s Report on the human rights of migrants deprived of their liberty (2003)

Civil Society Papers

• CoM member NGOs’ reports from the Global Compact for Migration Strategy and Stocktaking Meetings (2-6 December 2017 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)
• Now and How: Ten Acts for the Global Compact: a Civil Society Vision for a UN Global Compact on Human Mobility and Migration (November 2017; drafted in consultation with the CoM)
• Civil Society Joint Statement for 19 September High-Level Summit on Refugees and Migrants (July 2016)
• Civil Society Action Committee’s New Deal for Refugees and Migrants (June 2016)
• Migration and Sustainable Development Goals: A Post-2015 Call to Action (2015)
• Stockholm Agenda on migrant and migration-related goals and targets in post-2015 global and national development agendas (June 2014)
• Stockholm Agenda: Goals, Targets, and Indicators Chart (2014)
• 5-Year, 8-Point Action Plan for Collaboration (September 2013)

Multi-media

Accompanying document: Recommended Principles for Children on the Move and Other Children Affected by Migration in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Portuguese