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The Virtual Library on Migration facilitates access to documents and research published by different IOM missions both in the region and globally, as well as repositories related to other United Nations agencies, academia and civil society.

This document responds to the commitment of the eleven Member Countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (CRM) to promote, protect and guarantee the rights of migrant women in the region, in accordance with their international commitments.

Guidelines for the care and protection of women in the…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English, Spanish
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Migration and family remittances are issues of great relevance to El Salvador.

National Survey of Migration and Remittances El Salvador…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development, Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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This paper presents a contextual analysis of the mutual relations between migration and women’s empowerment with the aim to facilitate the debate among stakeholders, including policymakers, practitioners and civil society in the Caribbean subregion on the role of migration as a means of…

Women’s empowerment and migration in the Caribbean

Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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This preliminary document is a summary of one of the inputs that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is providing as a contribution to the Global Compact for Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration (GMP), to be agreed in 2018, as envisaged in the New York Declaration…

Overview of international migration in the Caribbean (…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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In keeping with its mandate, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) conducted a mapping survey among a sample of Jamaicans living outside of the country.

Mapping Jamaica’s Diaspora

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: English
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The Latin American and Caribbean Regional Meeting of Experts on International Migration preparatory to the Global Compact for Safe Migration, Orderly and Regular was held on 30 and 31 August 2017 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in…

Preliminary report of the Latin American and Caribbean…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: Spanish
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The Government of Honduras, by way of the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (SRECI), and being aware of the importance of formulating a national position to contribute to the Preparatory Phase leading to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM…

National Position of Honduras Regarding the Global Compact…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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Within the framework of the XXXIII General Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO), held on 09-10 June 2017, more than 200 legislators from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean participated in the High-Level Parliamentary Dialogue on Migration in Latin America…

Report on Results of the High-Level Parliamentary Dialogue…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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