What is the GMG?


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

 

Migration and Development

 

Legal and policy documents

Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development
(A/63/265)

General Assembly Resolution: Global Forum on Migration and Development
(A/RES/62/270)

General Assembly Resolution: International Migration and Development
(A/RES/61/208)

Report of the International Conference on Population and Development. Chapter X on
International Migration and Development. Cairo, 5-13 September 1994

High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, 14-15 September
2006

 

Publications

Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming barriers: Human mobility
and development, UNDP

 

Policy briefs

Outlook for Remittance Flows 2009-2011: Remittances expected to fall by 7-10 percent in 2009 (by Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra, and Ani Silwal)/Migration
& Development Brief, Migration and Remittances Team, Development Prospects Group,
World Bank, Issue 10, 13 July 2009

 

Seminar reports

Aligning Migration and Development Goals, Report, UNITAR Migration & Development
Series Seminar, organized jointly with IOM, UNFPA, and the MacArthur Foundation
on 23-24 March 2009

Building Partnerships, Report, UNITAR Migration & Development Series Seminar,
organized jointly with UNFPA, IOM, and the MacArthur Foundation on 7 March 2007

Contributions of Diasporas, Report, UNITAR/UNFPA/IOM Key Migration Issues
Workshop Series, 11 May 2006

 

Useful links

Diaspora engagement

More information on the Joint Migration & Development Initiative (JMDI) website

Remittances

More information on the World Bank website

 

 

 

News

The GMG organizes a global Practitioners Symposium on 27-28 May 2010 in Geneva. Click here for GMG Press Statement

The GMG endorsed a one-year workplan for 2010.

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

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 on 9 October 2009 Read more