This training manual – developed by ILO and UNICEF under the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking – seeks to aid governments, workers, employers, international, and non-governmental organizations that combat trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other exploitation.
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Hundreds of thousands of documented and undocumented refugees returned to Afghanistan in 2016, joining more than one million internally displaced within the country. International agencies warn of a humanitarian crisis that would affect hundreds of thousands of people as returnees struggle to meet basic needs. This Peace Brief provides an overview of the...
Return migration is not always a ‘natural’ process or a matter of simply going home. Particularly forced migrants, who return involuntarily, face several obstacles upon return. This report argues that return can only be sustainable when returnees have the possibility to become re-embedded on an economic, social networks and psychosocial dimension. In this...
Does the media contribute, consciously or not, to conveying a false and negative image of migration, by giving in to the stereotypes and conveying a biased point of view? And why? Is it a lack of knowledge about the issue? Lack of reliable data? Lack of time or means? Lack of thinking and boldness to challenge the actual clichés that could mainly be covered...
This handbook presents the determinants of migrant vulnerability (DOMV) model for analyzing and responding to migrant vulnerability. The DOMV model is specifically designed to address the protection and assistance needs of a specific subset of migrants: those who have experienced or are vulnerable to violence, exploitation, and abuse before, during or after...
The Practitioners Guide on Migration and International Human Rights Law analyses the protection afforded to migrants by international law and the means to implement it at national and international levels. The Guide synthesises and clarifies international standards on key issues, in particular: the rights and procedures connected to the way migrants enter a...
In line with international human rights and humanitarian law, and with refugee law by analogy, these 30 principles set out the rights and guarantees relevant to the protection of and assistance to IDPs in all phases of displacement.
This report, prepared and conducted by Samuel Hall under the Mediterranean Sustainable Reintegration (MEASURE) Project, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), outlines recommendations to support sustainable reintegration of migrants who return to their home countries in the framework of AVRR programmes. MEASURE aimed to foster the...
Through a broad and inclusive consultative process held in 2015-2016, the MICIC Initiative developed Guidelines to Protect Migrants in Countries Experiencing Conflict or Natural Disaster (The Guidelines). The Guidelines apply to situations in which migrants are present in a country experiencing a conflict or natural disaster. They provide concrete and...
The purpose of the field handbook is to provide operational guidance for child protection staff and all other actors working on prevention and response to family separation in emergencies. The handbook sets out to ensure that responses meet agreed inter-agency standards (where relevant), and are complementary. Moreover, it seeks to ensure that responses are...
This Global Compact presents a non-legally binding, cooperative framework that builds on the commitments agreed upon by Member States in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. It fosters international cooperation among all relevant actors on migration, acknowledging that no State can address migration alone, and upholds the sovereignty of States...
The relationship between migration and development is a key topic for research and policy. Earlier pessimistic perspectives focused on the threat to development of poorer countries through the loss of human resources. Recently, a more optimistic view has been advanced by northern governments and international agencies. This is based on the idea that...
The primary purpose of this handbook is to expand on project workers’ understanding of how to help trafficked children in schemes supported by members of the Terre des hommes International Federation (TdhIF) and their local partners. Ideally, the material will be useful more generally to other organisations or programmes for abused children. The handbook is...
The present research was conducted as part of the Project “Monitoring the situation of children returned from EU Member States” – co-funded by the European Union’s Return Fund – aiming to document, analyze and improve the situation of children that have been returned from European Union (‘EU’) Member States to six South-East European (‘SEE’) countries, by...
Le projet régional d’étude sur «les mobilités des enfants et des jeunes en Afrique de l’Ouest et du centre» est une initiative inter-agences inédite dans la sous-région. Porté par 8 agences régionales, le projet a été mis en oeuvre durant sa première phase (2009-2010) dans 4 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Guinée et Togo) 1, avec l’aide de...
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, States have an obligation to promote social re(integration) of any child victim of abuse and violence. This document describes “re(integration)” according to Tdh, presents the positioning of the organisation, elaborates on the various services needed and finally gives some indication on how they can...
This report seeks to identify how the Dutch government deals with rejected asylum seekers. The report shall further examine what measures have been taken to bring about returning rejected asylum seekers successfully. It also addresses the group of asylum seekers whose application for asylum in the Netherlands has been rejected, but who do not return to their...
The return of illegally-staying third-country nationals is one of the main pillars of the EU’s policy on migration and asylum. However, recent Eurostat data show that return rates at EU level have not improved despite the important increase in the number of rejected asylum applications and in the number of return decisions issued since 2014. In its 2015 EU...
The present joint general comment was adopted at the same time as joint general comment No. 3 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 22 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of...
This report presents a progress review and update on durable solutions programming in displacement-affected communities in three urban centres in Somalia: Mogadishu, Baidoa and Kismayo. It is a follow up from the solutions analyses conducted in the same locations in 2016/2017. These analyses will be repeated every year for the next four years to guide...