What is the GMG?


Migration Data
Labour Migration
Migration & Human Rights
Migration & Children
Migration & Gender
Trafficking & Smuggling
Migration & Health
Migration & Governance

 

Migration and Climate Change

 

Legal and policy documents

UNHCR Policy Paper: Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement: a
UNHCR perspective, August 2009

 

Publications

Climate change, migration, and displacement: impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation
options, by IOM, UNHCR, and UNU, in cooperation with the Norwegian Refugee Council
and the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally
displaced persons, 6 February 2009

Migration, Environment and Climate Change, UNESCO

 

Seminar reports

Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: Preparing for the Future,
Report, UNITAR Migration & Development Series Seminar, organized jointly with IOM,
UNFPA, and the MacArthur Foundation on 9 May 2008

 

Useful links

More information on the UNHCR website

More information on the IOM website

 

 

 

 

News

The Global Migration Group on the occasion of International Migrants Day, 18 December 2009 Read more

3rd working level meeting of the Global Migration Group under UNITAR's chairmanship (14 December 2009) has endorsed ToRs for the GMG Troika.

Voice of the Global Migration Group at the Global Forum on Migration & Development, Athens, 4-5 November 2009 Read more

Retreat of the Heads of agency of the Global Migration Group under UNITAR's chairmanship on 9 October 2009 Read more

1-year workplan adopted by the GMG. Read more