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Guideline
25 September 2024

Global Guidance for Comprehensive Information and Orientation Programmes: How to Incorporate Ethical Recruitment into New or Existing Programmes

This document offers guidance on incorporating ethical recruitment practices into both new and existing Comprehensive Information and Orientation Programmes (CIOP). Aimed at CIOP professional trainers, labour recruiters, and employers, it facilitates the effective implementation of Pre-Employment, Pre-Departure, Post-Arrival, and Pre-Return Orientation...
Report
24 September 2024

Returning Migrants Survey - Cambodia

The report is based on survey conducted in 2022 on international migrants returning home to Cambodia after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent governmental response measures. The assessment aimed to highlight the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers, particularly in the context of the ongoing global recession. Survey questions were designed to...
Report
24 September 2024

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

Debt and indebtedness are central to the lives of migrants from South-East Asia. Debt and the Migration Experience focuses attention on the role of debt in the migration process. Indebtedness and other forms of financial insecurity that return migrants experience affects the migration as well as sustainable return of migrant. This report understands the...
Publication

Climate Action is Protection Action

Protecting the rights of migrants and affected communities remains central to IOM’s climate action. Explore the nexus between Environmental Migration and Protection.
Article (issue/policy brief, journal, blog, etc.)
24 September 2024

Information Note on International Standards on Alternatives to Detention and Immigration Detention

This Information Note is designed to serve as a resource for practitioners dealing with migration detention and non-custodial alternatives to detention (ATDs). It aims to acquaint them with the relevant international instruments and standards that States are required to uphold in this field. The purpose of this Information Note is to provide an overview of...
Report
19 September 2024

The Climate Change–Human Trafficking Nexus

The impact of climate change is rarely considered as a potential contributor to human trafficking in global discussions or national level policy framework where nexus between the two remain unexplored. Climate change increases the risk of natural disasters and places a strain on livelihoods; it exacerbates poverty and can potentially cause situations of...
Report
19 September 2024

People on the Move in a Changing Climate – Linking Policy, Evidence and Action

Climate change, environmental degradation and disasters are impacting on human life around the world and affecting contemporary migration dynamics. Globally, natural disasters, climate change, and environmental degradation are reshaping contemporary human mobility patterns around the world. Internal mobility and safe, orderly and regular international...
Report
19 September 2024

Child Sex Trafficking in the Tourism Sector in Sri-Lanka

This qualitative study provided a platform for the victims' voices to be heard as they described their actual experiences. h focused on generating an in-depth understanding on child sex trafficking in the tourism sector in Sri Lanka. The research aimed to provide new knowledge on main research questions of (a) What are the experiences of child victims of...
Article (issue/policy brief, journal, blog, etc.)
19 September 2024

Emerging Trends of Human Trafficking in Sri-Lanka: Trafficking For Forced Criminality

This policy brief has been developed to understand the key features of the new form of trafficking for forced criminality, which has also emerged in Sri Lanka and to make recommendations to combat the crime, effectively protect/assist victims, expeditiously investigate cases and to prosecute the perpetrators. The primary observations made for the purpose of...
Report
19 September 2024

Creating a Cycle of Protection

The risk of child trafficking exists globally, with no country immune to its impact it makes the protection of the child victims of trafficking a major concern. This Guidance aims to support States in developing and strengthening comprehensive, child-centered collaboration between anti-trafficking efforts and child protection systems. The Guidance has been...
Article (issue/policy brief, journal, blog, etc.)
16 September 2024

Protection Advocacy Brief: IOM Sudan Crisis Response

Since April 2023, people in Sudan continue to face all forms of protection concerns and a worsening protection crisis, with women, girls, men and boys in situations of vulnerability experiencing the worst consequences. Approximately 2.3 million people have fled to neighbouring countries namely, Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and...
Article

Mental Health and Empowerment at the Forefront of the Assistance Provided to Victims of Trafficking

Joint Call for Practices by the Migrant Protection Platform and the Network's Hub For this year’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (WADiP), under the theme “Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking”, the Platform and the Migration Network Hub   launched a Joint Call for Practices of programmes and policies relevant to Objective 10...
Article

Protection of refugee and migrant children and women from human trafficking

Joint Call for Practices by the Migrant Protection Platform and the Network's Hub For this year’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (WADiP), under the theme “Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking”, the Platform and the Migration Network Hub   launched a Joint Call for Practices of programmes and policies relevant to Objective 10...
Article

Accompanying unaccompanied children forced to commit offences in the recognition of their status as victims of human trafficking

Joint Call for Practices by the Migrant Protection Platform and the Network's Hub For this year’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (WADiP), under the theme “Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking”, the Platform and the Migration Network Hub   launched a Joint Call for Practices of programmes and policies relevant to Objective 10...
E-courses
26 August 2024

Counter Trafficking in Humanitarian Settings (2.0)

Humanitarian crises may exacerbate pre-existing trafficking trends and give rise to new ones. To this end, IOM developed this unique e-learning for audiences who may be familiar with humanitarian responses but are less familiar with anti-trafficking interventions in humanitarian responses. The course is available in English and should be informative to...
E-courses
26 August 2024

Counter Trafficking in Humanitarian Settings (1.0)

IOM developed this unique e-learning course for Humanitarian Personnel which can include Government entities, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, that respond to humanitarian crises. It is designed for audiences who may be familiar with humanitarian responses but are unfamiliar with anti-trafficking interventions in humanitarian responses. The course...
E-courses
26 August 2024

House, land & property and displacement: An interactive learning experience

In this interactive-video course, learners will step into the shoes of CCCM and Shelter practitioners tasked with addressing issues such as tenure verification (due diligence), property restitution for returnees and women’s access to land rights. Housing, land, and property (HLP) issues are among the most pressing challenges faced by humanitarian...
E-courses
26 August 2024

Counter-Trafficking Essentials

This course is designed to equip IOM personnel involved or interested in counter-trafficking, protection and beyond with the core knowledge and essential skills to effectively address this global phenomenon, respond to its challenges and safeguard the rights of trafficked persons. The course is free and available for IOM personnel (in English) all year.
Report
21 August 2024

From Al Hol to Hope: Navigating Return and Reintegration Challenges (Findings Report 37)

This report is a part of UNIDIR’s Managing Exits from Armed Conflict (MEAC) initiative, run in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) & other agencies. It explores the experiences of Iraqis repatriated to their home country after spending time in the Al Hol Camp in Syria. It is based on original qualitative research and surveys...