What is the GMG?


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

 

Migration and Children

 

Legal and policy documents

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Mr. Jorge Bustamante, with a thematic focus on the protection of children in the context of migration (June 2009)

Human Rights Council resolution on migration and the human rights of the child (A/HRC/RES/12/6)

International Migration Law N°15 - Human Rights of Migrant Children, IOM

 

Fact-sheets

Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Migration and Children’s Rights, GMG-UNICEF, October 2009

Fact-Sheet on the Economic Crisis and Migration, Remittances and Children Left Behind, GMG-UNICEF, October 2009

 

Data sheets

Children, Adolescents and Migration: Filling the Evidence GapPrepared by UNICEF Division of Policy and Practice with the support of the United Nations Population Division/DESA and UNDP Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, October 2009

 

Publications

Children in Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries: Their family, national and international context, UNICEF, 2009

For Better Implementation of Migrant Children's Rights in South Africa, UNICEF, 2009

Children and Women Left Behind in Labour Sending Countries: An Appraisal of Social Risks, UNICEF, 2008

Impact social des transferts de Fonds des Marocains résidant à l'étranger: Une revue de literature, UNICEF, 2008

The Effects of Parent's Migration on the Rights of Children Left Behind in the Philippines, UNICEF, 2008

The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Communities, Families and Children in Moldova, UNICEF, 2008

The Impact of International Migration: Children Left Behind in Selected Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, UNICEF, 2007

Independent Children, Inconsistent Adults: International Child Migration and the Legal Framework, UNICEF, 2008

Child Migrants with and without Parents: Census-Based Estimates of Scale and Characteristics in Argentina, Chile and South Africa, UNICEF, 2009

 

Policy briefs

Migration, human rights and sustainable human development, Policy note for the 2007 Global Forum on Migration and Development, UNDP and UNICEF, June 2007

Policy brief on children and migration, UNICEF, June 2007

 

Seminar reports

"General recommendations for EU Action in relation to unaccompanied and separated children of third country origin", Save the Children, Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, UNICEF, 15 September 2009

 

Useful links

More publications on the UNICEF webiste

 

 

 

 

 

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