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

Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IASC-2010)

IECAH Training uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2013

iasc_framework_on_durable_solutions_for_idp_2010.pdf 1.48 MB

Operational and practical approaches to durable solutions for IDP are still sometimes subjected to controversy and they are, in most cases, a difficult topic. This extensive document provides an in-depth view to it, with a focus on operational developments and hands-on materials, as well as a...

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Group: Protection in humanitarian action
Handbook (UNHCR-2012)

IECAH Training uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2013

handbook_protection_idp_unhcr_jun2010.pdf 3.61 MB

A comprehensive guide, useful for more detailed approaches to specific topics This Handbook was put together by the Protection Cluster as the result of joint efforts by the staff of over 30 international organizations, most of which are members of the Global Protection Cluster who contributed to...

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Group: Protection in humanitarian action
Brookings Handbook for IDP Protection (1999)

IECAH Training uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2013

handbook_for_idp_protection_1999.pdf 1.49 MB

A "Classic" guide, simple and action-oriented

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Group: Protection in humanitarian action
Protection Field Guide (UNHCR-1999)

IECAH Training uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2013

protectionfieldguide.pdf 209.38 KB

A "classic" guide, simple, useful and practice oriented

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Group: Protection in humanitarian action
The 2013 UN World Youth Report will focus on Youth Migration and Development

Alba RIOBO SOUTO posted Information | 27 February 2013

The United Nations is in the process of preparing its 2013 World Youth Report (WYR) on Youth Migration and Development. The Report will offer a multidimensional account and/or perspective of the life experiences of young migrants and young people affected by migration. To learn more about the...

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Group: Public Group on Employment, VET and Social Protection
The 2013 UN World Youth Report will focus on Youth Migration and Development

Alba RIOBO SOUTO posted Information | 27 February 2013

The United Nations is in the process of preparing its 2013 World Youth Report (WYR) on Youth Migration and Development. The Report will offer a multidimensional account and/or perspective of the life experiences of young migrants and young people affected by migration. To learn more about the...

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Group: Youth in Development
Gender, Transitional Justice, and Displacement. Challenges in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

Chiara Guidetti uploaded a new Document | 19 November 2012

ictj-brookings-displacement-gender-great-lakes-casestudy-2012-english.pdf 288.34 KB

Volume of the series from ICTJ and the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement Displacement is one of the most widespread and tangible consequences of conflict, and has been chronically high in Africa’s Great Lakes region by any standard. This paper focuses on three salient gender-specific...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION: KEY FACTS AND FIGURES

Capacity4dev Team updated the Information | 8 October 2012

The UN defines a migrant as an individual who has resided in a foreign country for more than one year irrespective of the causes, voluntary or involuntary, and the means, regular or irregular, used to migrate. However, there is no universally accepted definition of migration. By its very nature,...

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Group: Public Group on Migration & Asylum
Droits humains des femmes et Egalité hommes-femmes au sud de la Méditerranée

Chiara Guidetti uploaded a new Document | 3 September 2012

droits_humanis_femme_med.pdf 687.68 KB

Il s’agit d’une Analyse Régionale de la Situation des Droits des femmes, dans le cadre du Programme «Promouvoir l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes dans la région euro-méditerranéenne (EGEP)», financé par l’Union Européenne. Il s’agit d’une compilation des rapports nationaux de la situation...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Migration Flows throughout the ‘Arab Spring’

Team the Unit B.3 posted Information | 22 June 2012

The ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 was accompanied by significant migration movements and a drastically changed context for regional migration governance. Since the beginning of 2011, the following flows have been observed: Flows from Libya The Libyan crisis that started in February 2011 led to major cross-...

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Group: Public Group on Migration & Asylum

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