UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Refugees and Migrants – Selected Online Resources

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UN Entities

• Refugees and Migrants: https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/
  • Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/migration-compact
    • A/RES/73/195: Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration / Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2018: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/73/195
  • Global Compact on Refugees: https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/refugees-compact
    • endorsed by the UN General Assembly on 17 December 2018 – A/RES/73/151: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/73/151
    • A/73/12 (Part II): Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Part 2: Global Compact on Refugees: https://docs.un.org/A/73/12(PartII)
    • Formal consultations: https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/overview/global-compact-refugees/formal-consultations
  • Global Compact on Refugees: How is this different from the migrants’ pact and how will it help people forced to flee? (UN News Centre, 14 December 2018): https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1028641
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): https://www.unhcr.org/
  • The Global Compact on Refugees:
    https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/overview/global-compact-refugees
    https://globalcompactrefugees.org/
  • States reach historic deal for refugees and commit to more effective, fairer response
    (UNHCR News Story, 17 December 2018): https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/states-reach-historic-deal-refugees-and-commit-more-effective-fairer-response
  • A new deal for refugees: https://www.unhcr.org/news-and-stories/special-features/new-deal-refugees
  • “Refugees” or “Migrants”? How word choices affect rights and lives – UNHCR Explainer (19 December 2023): https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/refugees-or-migrants-how-word-choices-affect-rights-and-lives
  • ‘Refugees’ and ‘Migrants’- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) (UNHCR News Story,
    16 March 2016): https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/refugees-and-migrants-frequently-asked-questions-faqs
  • Teaching about Refugees: https://www.unhcr.org/what-we-do/build-better-futures/education/teaching-about-refugees
• International Organization for Migration (IOM): https://www.iom.int
  • Global Compact for Migration: https://www.iom.int/global-compact-migration
  • “i am a migrant” is the UN Migration Agency’s platform to promote diversity and inclusion of migrants in society: https://iamamigrant.org/
  • Not Just Numbers – An Educational Toolkit about Migration and Asylum in Europe: https://www.iom.int/not-just-numbers-educational-toolkit-about-migration-and-asylum-europe
• United Nations Network on Migration: https://migrationnetwork.un.org/
• Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW): https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/cmw
• Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – OHCHR and Migration:
  https://www.ohchr.org/en/migration
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants: https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-migrants
• International Labour Organisation (ILO) – Labour Migration: https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/labour-migration
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/index.html

Conferences and Observances

• The Global Refugee Forum: https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/overview/global-compact-refugees/global-refugee-forum
  • 2023: https://www.unhcr.org/news/2023-global-refugee-forum
    • Global Refugee Forum ends with bold pledges, solutions for displaced (15 December 2023): https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1144847
    • Outcomes of the Global Refugee Forum 2023: https://www.unhcr.org/media/outcomes-global-refugee-forum-2023
  • 2019: https://www.unhcr.org/events/global-refugee-forum-2019
    • Global Refugee Forum ends with hundreds of pledges (UN News Centre, 18 December 2019): https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1053881
    • Key takeaways from the Global Refugee Forum (17 January 2020): https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/1/5e21b3a74/key-takeaways-global-refugee-forum.html
• Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Morocco, 10-11 December 2018):
  https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/intergovernmental-conference-2018
• High-Level Meeting on the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants: One Year On – 20 September 2017:
  https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/high-level-meeting-new-york-declaration-refugees-and-migrants-one-year
• United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants – 19 September 2016: https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/summit
  • A/RES/71/1 – New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants:
    https://docs.un.org/A/RES/71/1
• 20 June – World Refugee Day:
  https://www.un.org/en/observances/refugee-day
  https://www.unhcr.org/get-involved/take-action/world-refugee-day
• 30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons:
  https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day
  https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/endht/index.html
• 18 December – International Migrants Day:
  https://www.un.org/en/observances/migrants-day
  https://www.iom.int/international-migrants-day-2024

UN Treaties

• Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Geneva, 28 July 1951):
  https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/overview/1951-refugee-convention
• Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (New York, 31 January 1967):
  https://www.unhcr.org/media/1951-refugee-convention-and-1967-protocol-relating-status-refugees
• Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (New York, 28 September 1954):
  https://www.unhcr.org/media/1954-convention-relating-status-stateless-persons
• Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (New York, 30 August 1961):
  https://www.unhcr.org/media/1961-convention-reduction-statelessness
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (New York, 18 December 1990):
  https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-convention-protection-rights-all-migrant-workers
• Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (New York, 15 November 2000):
  https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/protocol-against-smuggling-migrants-land-sea-and-air
• Status of Ratification → United Nations Treaty Collection:
  https://treaties.un.org
• Audiovisual Library of International Law
  • Refugees and Stateless Persons (Historic Archives): https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/refugees.html
  • International Migration Law (Lecture Series):  https://legal.un.org/avl/ls/intlmigrationlaw.html

Research & Documentation

• Global Issues on the UN Agenda
  • International Migration: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/migration
  • Refugees: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/refugees
• News Focus – Refugees & Migrants: https://news.un.org/en/focus-topic/refugees-and-migrants
• Global Focus – UNHCR Operations Worldwide: https://reporting.unhcr.org
• refworld (UNHCR’s decision-support tool for country of origin research and refugee status decisions): https://www.refworld.org/
• UNRIC Library Backgrounder – Migration: https://unric.org/en/unric-library-backgrounder-migration/
• UNOG Library Research Guide – Refugees and Asylum Seekers: https://libraryresources.unog.ch/refugees
• UN Library Vienna – Research Guide – Human trafficking and migrant smuggling: https://libraryresearch.unvienna.org/humantrafficking
• ILO Library Research Guide – International labour migration:
  https://libguides.ilo.org/labour-migration-en
• UNHCR Refworld Special Features
  • Asylum and Migration: https://www.refworld.org/thematic-area/asylum-and-migration
  • Refugee Status Determination:
    https://www.refworld.org/thematic-area/refugee-status-determination
• UN Archives – World War II: Refugees: https://archives.un.org/content/wwii-refugees