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  • Biodiversity
    • Importance of Biodiversity
    • Causes of Biodiversity Loss
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change and Biodiversity
    • Conservation of Biodiversity
    • Solutions to Biodiversity Loss
    • Sustainable Development Goals for Biodiversity
    • Biodiversity Access and Benefit-Sharing
    • Source material and useful links
  • Climate
    • Climate Justice in International Law
    • Climate Justice Finance
    • Climate Displacement
    • Climate Litigation
    • Source material and useful links
  • Conflict
  • Energy
    • Sustainable Development Goal for Energy
    • Solutions to Energy Poverty
    • Finance for Energy For All
    • Coal and Hydro Dilemmas
    • Source material and useful links
  • Food
    • Right to Food
    • Sustainable Development Goal for Food
    • Causes of Food Insecurity
    • Governance of Food Security
    • Solutions to Food Insecurity
    • Source material and useful links
  • Goals
    • Resistance to Sustainable Development
    • From MDGs to SDGs
    • Finance for SDGs
    • Aid Statistics
    • Aid Politics
    • GDP and Green Economics
    • Source material and useful links
  • Governance
    • Globalisation
    • International Development Model
    • Tax Justice
    • Source material and useful links
  • Migration
    • Migrant Workers
    • Refugees
    • Rights of Refugees
    • Compacts for Refugees and Migration
    • Source Material and Useful Links
  • Population
    • World Population Projections
    • Demographic Transition
    • Demographic Dividend
    • Population Policies
    • Opposition to Family Planning
    • Overpopulation or Overconsumption?
    • Source material and useful links
  • Poverty
    • Global Poverty Statistics
    • National Poverty Line
    • International Poverty Line
    • Causes of Global Poverty
    • Should We Care About Poverty?
    • Sustainable Development Goal for Poverty
    • Global Poverty Solutions
    • Source material and useful links
  • Rights
    • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    • International Human Rights Law
    • Women’s Rights in International Law
    • Human Rights Law Enforcement
    • Rights-based Development
    • Source material and useful links
  • Water
    • Causes of Water Scarcity
    • Climate Change and Water Scarcity
    • Solutions to Water Scarcity
    • Sustainable Development Goal for Water
    • Water Wars
    • Source material and useful links

Source Material and Useful Links

for Tread Softly background briefings on Migration

Refugee Rights

UN Refugee Agency

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2016

1951 Refugee Convention FAQ

UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

The Jordan Compact: Lessons learnt– from Overseas Development Institute

The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework – from UNHCR

Global Compact for Migration – from International Organisation for Migration

Migrant Workers
World Migration Report 2018 from International Organization for Migration
International Organization for Migration
International Labour Organization
Remittances Gateway

Advocacy and Research

Norwegian Refugee Council

Refugees International

International Rescue Committee

European Council on Refugees and Exiles

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

more Migration briefings

  • Drivers of Migration
  • Migrant Workers
  • Refugees
  • Rights of Refugees
  • Compacts for Refugees and Migration

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Recent news and opinion about Migration

International poll shows one in three would emigrate

3/2/2023: Pollsters at Gallup International have discovered that 36% of people around the world would prefer to live in another country. Poor urban populations in many parts of the world are desperate to leave for a better place.

Source: DW


World Cup final falls on International Migrants Day

16/12/2022: The 2022 World Cup is ending with no commitment from FIFA or Qatari authorities to remedy abuses, including unexplained deaths, that migrant workers suffered to make the tournament possible.

Source: Human Rights Watch


UN agencies appeal for $1.72 billion for Venezuelan exodus

1/12/2022: Nearly 6 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela are living in 17 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration are appealing for funds to support the efforts of host governments.

Source: UN Refugee Agency


New EU migration plan, same rights violations

1/12/2022: Human Rights Watch is critical of the European Commission’s new action plan on the Central Mediterranean. The plan doubles down on support for the Libyan Coast Guard and its interceptions of migrants at sea and their return to Libya where they face arbitrary detention and horrific abuses.

Source: Human Rights Watch


ASEAN ministers hold emergency Myanmar meeting

26/10/2022: As military atrocities continue in Myanmar, an estimated 70,000 refugees are seeking asylum throughout the region. Southeast Asian leaders should respond to evidence that their own governments are forcing refugees to return to Myanmar where their safety is at risk.

Source: Human Rights Watch


Rwanda will remain open to asylum seekers and refugees

14/9/2022: Rwanda’s High Commissioner to the UK argues that the country has a decades-long track record of hosting refugees and asylum seekers, in accordance with international law. It is ready to implement the controversial agreement for onward transfer of migrants from the UK.

Source: The East African


Five years and still no solutions for Rohingya refugees

23/8/2022: Almost one million stateless ethnic Rohingya  remain in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, the world's largest refugee camp. Five years on from the exodus from Myanmar, the UN Refugee Agency is struggling to sustain international humanitarian support.

Source: UN News


The EU’s ‘racist’ refugee system, and how to fix it

26/7/2022: At around 3.7 million, the number of Ukrainians who have applied for protection in EU member states dwarfs the 1.3 million people who applied for asylum in the EU in 2015. Europe’s response in 2022, however, has been vastly different from that of 2015.

Source: The New Humanitarian


Victory for asylum seekers in US Supreme Court

6/7/2022: The US Supreme Court has ruled that President Joe Biden can end the Migrant Protection Protocols. These allowed US border officers to send non-Mexican asylum seekers to Mexico while their claims were adjudicated in US immigration courts.

Source: Human Rights Watch


Global refugee resettlement needs will rise steeply next year

21/6/2022: More than 2 million refugees will be in need of resettlement next year, according to the Needs Assessment for 2023 released by the UN Refugee Agency. As the figure for 2021 was only 39,266, the Agency is calling on states to significantly increase places made available.

Source: UN Refugee Agency


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