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Migrant rights

Under international law, migrants have human rights by virtue of their humanity. International customary law and international human rights instruments are of universal application and therefore set States duties ...
Migration Health Data Sources (Mapping)

Migration and health

Migration places individuals in situations which may impact their physical and mental well-being. Conditions surrounding the migration process may increase the vulnerability of migrants towards poorer health outco...

International students

The numbers of internationally mobile students are increasing and destinations diversifying. “Internationally mobile students” typically are issued a student visa or permit to pursue a tertiary (or higher) degree ...
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GCM Development process

On 19 September 2016, Heads of State and Government from the 193 UN Member States came together at the UN General Assembly to discuss topics related to migration and refugees at the global level. The adoption of t...

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Technical paper: Development, validation and testing of a methodology for SDG indicator 10.7.2 on migration policies

This paper presents an overview of the development of a methodology for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 10.7.2 on the number of countries with migration policies to facilitate orderly, safe, regular a...
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Migration and Development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries

This publication aims to recapitulate major research findings carried out in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Timor-Leste, Tri...
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Measuring Hard-to-Count Migrant Populations: Importance, Definitions, and Categories

The report clarifies which migrants are considered "hard to count" (such as irregular migrants or trafficking victims) and offers brief overviews of methods used to measure these particular cross-bo...
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Toolkit on International Migration

Provides an overview of basic definitions, concepts and sources for statistics on international migration, a summary of key messages, a quick guide to migration data and suggestions for further reading. This docum...

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Comprehensive approaches but in a silo: 3 findings from the Migration Governance Indicators (MGI)

Not least since 2015, issues of human mobility have been high on many political agendas around the world. Yet available information on migration governance in different countries is highly unequal, with the focus ...
Data Responsibility

Ensuring data responsibility within the Humanitarian sector

As humanitarians collect more data to inform their operations, it is increasingly within their moral, ethical and legal obligations to ensure they put the necessary data handling safeguards in place.  Data Re...
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Four steps to ensure the mobility of social security for migrants

Portable social security benefits for migrants have great potential to alleviate poverty and contribute to development. Yet there is no guarantee that migrants will be able to take benefits&nbs...
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10 of the coolest visualizations of migration data

The increasingly complex landscape of international migration data requires visual tools that explain migration issues and trends in an easy-to-understand way. Jasper Tjaden, Data and Survey Officer...

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Migration Data in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Migration to and from countries in Southern Africa1 is driven largely by the pursuit of economic opportunities, political instability and increasingly, environmental hazards. In a region with an estimated populati...

Migration data in Southern Asia

The densely populated sub-region of Southern Asia, encompassing 1.94 billion people (UN DESA, 2020) in nine countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, ...

Migration data in South-eastern Asia

South-eastern Asia has, since historic times, been defined by large-scale population movements. Stretching over 11 countries – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia...

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