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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.

The Protocol on Detection, Assistance and Reference of Trafficked Children and Adolescents is part of the activities established in the National Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants (2009-2014) prepared by the Inter-Agency Commission to Combat Trafficking…

Protocol for the detection, assistance and referral of…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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This summary provides an overview of IOM's activities through key statistics produced by the Organization, as an update to the overview contained in the World Migration Report 2011, where statistics for the period 2001–2010 were reported.

Summary of IOM Statistics 2011-2015

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal, Migration Data
Language: English
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The study identifies the extent to which the migrant population is being incorporated into the normative and institutional frameworks of the National Systems of Risk Reduction and Emergency Assistance of the countries of the Central American region.

Executive Summary: Migrants in risk reduction and emergency…

Thematic Area: Operations and emergencies
Language: English
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This briefing presents an overview of health-related challenges faced by international migrants. Implicitly, the SDGs recognise the importance and interrelation between health and migration. 

Health, migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable…

Thematic Area: Migration Health
Language: English
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Haiti’s vulnerability to almost all kinds of environmental changes, as well as the high mobility of its migratory flows, has led the country to be one of the first in Central America and the Caribbean, in recognizing the link between the environment and internal migration through its migration…

Challenges and policies: Migration, Environment and Climate…

Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change
Language: French
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The purpose of this Protocol is to establish a reference mechanism to safely and coordinately address assistance to survivors of internal and international trafficking, optimizing resources and efforts.

Protocol for identification, assistance and reintegration…

Thematic Area:
Language: English, Spanish
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This document is a summary of the main findings from a series of studies conducted during 2013 and 2014 in relation to migration of Haitians heading to Brazil. Since 2010, there has been an increase in the number of Haitian migrants heading to the United States, France and Canada.

Haitian Migration to Brazil: Characteristics, Opportunities…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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This document was prepared based on the results of the workshop “Regional Workshop on Policies, Practices and Conclusions for the Return, Reintegration and Integration of Migrants”, (September, 2013), in San Jose, Costa Rica within the framework of the Regional Conference on Migration.

Guiding Principles for the Development of Migration…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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