Migration & Asylum

Globalisation has lead to greater numbers of people moving across borders and there are now over 200 million migrants worldwide. Their motives for migrating are numerous and frequently not clear-cut but a mix, ranging from looking for a better future elsewhere in the face of socio-economic disparities and underdevelopment, to seeking a safe haven from conflict, violence, discrimination, violations of their human rights or fleeing from environmental disasters.

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Asylum - Human trafficking - IDPs - Integrated border management - Labour migration - Migration dialogue - Migration information systems - Migration policy - Refugees - Remittances policies - South-South migration

IOM Welcomes Inclusion of ‘Climate Migrants’, ‘Climate Migration’ in Draft Paris COP Agreement

Jo De Backer posted Information | 17 December 2015

IOM welcomes the inclusion of ‘climate migrants’ and ‘climate migration’ in the text agreed as part of the Paris climate change agreement. The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, was held in Le Bourget, France, near Paris. It resulted in a legally binding universal agreement on...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
The Kampala Convention: Making it work for women (NRC)

Luis Enrique Eguren uploaded a new Document | 11 December 2015

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A briefing paper published this week by NRC: 'The Kampala Convention: Make it work for women', aims to improve protection for displaced women and girls. It is based on NRC’s legal assistance (ICLA) programmes in South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic and Côte d’Ivoire; countries with...

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Group: Protection in humanitarian action
Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter

Jo De Backer posted Information | 24 November 2015

12th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification 12-23 October 2015 Ankara, Turkey More than 6,000 delegates gathered at the COP12 of UNCCD to discuss how to halt and reverse land degradation in all its forms. A definition of Land Degradation Neutrality was adopted,...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Human Mobility at COP 21

Jo De Backer posted Information | 23 November 2015

Now is a historical opportunity, and I take this occasion to urge States and all other relevant actors [...] to include human mobility in the Climate Agreement to be negotiated in Paris. There is still time to do so. Migration was anchored in the Climate Adaptation Framework in Cancun in 2010 --...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Conférence internationale sur la République centrafricaine et l'apport du Fonds fiduciaire européen Bêkou

Sarah Klonski updated the WIKI page | 19 November 2015

Le mardi 26 mai 2015 , l'Union européenne a accueilli à Bruxelles plus de 300 participants à la Conférence internationale sur la République centrafricaine et l'apport du Fonds fiduciaire européen Bêkou Cet évènement a été organisé conjointement par la Haute représentante de l'Union pour les...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Fiche d'Action - Projet Réfugiés

Cristina Rigolli updated the Document | 19 November 2015

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La deuxième réunion du Comité de gestion du fonds Bêkou s'est tenue le 18 décembre 2014. Deux nouvelles fiches d'action ont été adoptées à cette occasion, dont une visant les réfugiés centrafricains au Cameroun.

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
What's at stake at the Valletta Summit?

Rhys Williams posted Information | 6 November 2015

Development and migration Development processes and migration and mobility are often intricately linked. Migration is one powerful way out of poverty and has great potential for sustainable development. Flows of remittances now greatly exceed development aid, playing an important role in poverty...

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Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter October 2015

Jo De Backer posted Information | 30 October 2015

MECLEP Papua New Guinea Policymaker Training Workshop 26 - 28 October 2015 - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea IOM has launched a series of capacity-building trainings targeting mid to senior level policymakers and practitioners active in environmental and/or migration areas. The trainings seek to...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Vulnerable 20 "V20" Group Founded - 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change

Jo De Backer posted Information | 27 October 2015

Finance Ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20), representing close to 700 million people threatened by climate change and spanning world regions, held their inaugural meeting on 8 October 2015 in Lima, Peru. They announced a series of actions to foster greater investment in climate resiliency and...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Thoughts on Development – How Can We Better Tackle Crises?

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 27 October 2015

Over the last three years, Marcus Cornaro worked as Deputy Director General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO). Before taking up his new post as Head of the European Union Delegation to South Africa, he spoke to capacity4dev.eu about his views on development, the problems we’...

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