External Documents & Multimedia

UN Framework Documents and Guidelines on Migrants & Refugees

• Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (December 2018)
• Global Compact on Refugees (September 2018)
• Human Rights Council Resolution on Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (September 2017)
• New York Declaration: Outcome Document of the 19 September 2016 High-Level Summit on Refugees and Migrants (August 2016)
• Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders (OHCHR, September 2014)
• Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation (OHCHR, 2014)
• Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of Migrant Children and Children Born to Migrant Parents: Challenges, Good Practices and Recommendations (UNICEF
  & National University of Lanus, Argentina, March 2010)
• Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child (UNHCR, May 2008)
• Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (OCHA, 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 and Special Rapporteurs on the Human Rights of Migrants

• SR Morales’ Report on the impact of migration on migrant women and girls: a
  gender perspective (April 2019)
• SR Morales’ Report on the promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (July 2018)
• SR Morales’ Report on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
  political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development (May 2018)
• OHCHR’s Report on the compendium of principles, good practices and policies on safe, orderly and regular migration in line with international human rights law (October 2017)
• SR Crépeau’s Report on the promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the
  effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (July 2017)
• SR Crépeau’s Report on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility (April 2017)
• SR Crépeau’s Report on the impact of bilateral and multilateral trade
  agreements on the human rights of migrants (May 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)

UNHCR Global Trend Reports

• Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2018
• Mid-Year Trends 2018
• Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2017
• Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2016
• Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2015
• Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2014
• Global Trends 2013
• Global Trends 2012
• Global Trends 2011
• Global Trends 2010
• Global Trends 2009
• Global Trends 2008
• Global Trends 2007
• Global Trends 2006

UN Women Expert Working Group’s Guidance Series on the Global Compact for Migration for Governments (2018)

• Issue #1: Steps for Ensuring a Gender-Responsive GCM
• Issue #2: Steps for Ensuring Gender-Responsive Access to Services and to Justice in the Global Compact for Migration
• Issue #3: Gender-responsive approach for promoting and protecting the rights of children and families in migration
• Issue #4: Realizing the human rights, including labor rights of women migrant workers
• Issue #5: Implementing a gender-responsive global compact for migration

Civil Society Papers

• GFMD International Steering Committee’s 12 Recommendations for the Future of the Global Forum on Migration and Development
• Civil Society Action Committee’s statements & interventions for the intergovernmental negotiations of the Global Compact for Migration (March-July 2018)
• 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; also available in français, español, and русский; List of signatories)
• 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