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This report focuses on the possible future scenarios for climate change, natural disasters and migration and development, looking to increase awareness and find answers to the challenges that lie...

The media and prevailing policy discourses convey an increasingly apocalyptic image of the massive outflows of desperate Africans fleeing poverty and war at home. This study tries to achieve a more...

Recent empirical studies have found that climate variability and migration are characterized by a non-linear relationship. This study explores the climate change impacts on migratory processes. It...

Policy coherence between migration and development agendas is of increasing interest in current times; there is growing recognition that migration policies should support rather than hinder investment...

This book explores the conceptual framework of the interrelationships between migration, environment and development, which are among the most pressing issues on the contemporary global agenda. After...

To date, trafficking in males has been underconsidered in research despite noteworthy signals that it is a violation faced by many males, adults and minors. Through the case of Belarus and Ukraine...

The current global economic crisis is impacting migration patterns and processes around the world. A reduction in migration flows globally has been reported. Migrant workers are laid off, and while...

The present study considers fourteen of the principal Regional Consultative Processes on Migration, spanning most regions of the globe. Based primarily on interviews with government officials and...

This study sheds some light into the kinds of relationships that Angolans living in Portugal and South Africa keep with their country of origin, focusing on the financial remittances that they send...

While there has been significant growth in the number of Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs) in recent years, there has been no attempt to date to examine the impact of these centres on migration...

This report represents the comparative results of a research project on the role of migrants in the workforce of caregivers for the elderly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States...

The 2006 crisis in Timor-Leste saw close to 15 per cent of the population displaced from their homes. This study looks at the National Recovery Strategy (NRS) adopted by the government to resolve...

This document provides guidance to countries looking to establish facilities for ship dismantling. It contains technical guidelines and recommendations on procedures, processes and practices that must...

These technical guidelines provide methods for the proper treatment of wastes from public and private healthcare establishments. The suggested approaches take into consideration the waste management...

This paper defines the criteria for establishing the ecotoxicological hazard of wastes. The ecotoxicological impact of a chemical substance or waste is measured by its ability to act toxically on...

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1989) is a global international treaty on hazardous and other wastes. It sets rules for...

This publication contains nationally reported information for countries that are parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal. The...

This publication compiles information on the key restrictions to the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes, reported by parties to the Secretariat of the Basel Convention in 2002...

In recent years, illegal transit migration through Turkey, together with the use of Turkey’s territory as a transition post for onward migration towards the west, has become an issue of growing...

This training manual has been developed to assist with the preparation of a national environmentally sound management plan for polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) and PCB contaminated equipment. It is designed...