EXCOM 2015 Wrap-up:
The 66th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme ended on 9 October 2015. Here is the HC's closing statement. The report of the session is also now available. A decision was taken on a multi-year workplan for Executive Committee Conclusions (see p. 7). Themes under consideration include "International cooperation from a protection and solutions perspective," "Youth," "Resilience and self-reliance from a protection and solutions perspective," and "Machine readable travel documents." NGO statements are posted on the ICVA web site. Other conference documents can be accessed via the plenary session page.
Publications:
Expert Statement on Internally Displaced Persons, Washington, DC, 24 Aug. 2015 [text]
How the World Views Migration (IOM, Oct. 2015) [text]
- Prepared in collaboration with Gallup World Poll; see also related press release.
Religious Freedom Matters: USCIRF Conversation with UN High Commissioner Guterres (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Oct. 2015) [access]
- Follow link to access video.
Returning Home after Fukushima:
Displacement from a Nuclear Disaster
and International Guidelines for Internally Displaced Persons, Migration, Environment and Climate Change Policy Brief Series, vol. 1, no. 4 (IOM, Sept. 2015) [text]
What’s in a Name? The Complex Reality of Migration and Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century (openDemocracy, Oct. 2015) [text]
World Migration Report 2015 - Migrants and Cities: New Partnerships to Manage Mobility (IOM, Oct. 2015) [text]
- Also available in French and Spanish.
Related posts:
- News: Candidates for UN High Commissioner for Refugees (22 Oct. 2015)
- Thematic Focus: General, incl. Research Ethics (16 Oct. 2015)
- News: 66th Session of EXCOM (5 Oct. 2015)
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