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This training guide is designed to enable participants to understand the human rights perspective on migration, and how human rights laws and standards can be operationalized to make migration safer and an empowering experience for all. It provides an introduction to related principles and issues and is designed for persons with limited knowledge of human rights or migration. The goal of the course is to teach participants to recognize the scope and content of international human rights standards relevant to migrants, and so enable them to adopt a human rights-based approach in their work on migration. The learning objectives specify that, by the end of the course, participants will be able to: • Identify and apply relevant human rights standards to the situations that migrants face, particularly migrants in vulnerable situations; • Adopt a human rights-based approach to migrant issues; • Assess how international human rights mechanisms can help practically to realize migrants’ human rights at the national level; • Respond strategically, through policy and practice, to help realize migrants’ human rights; • Identify ways to strengthen activities on migration and human rights. Based on OHCHR’s human rights training methodology, this training guide aims not only to build knowledge and understanding of the human rights framework, but to enhance skills and attitudes that will enable practitioners to better promote and protect the human rights of migrants.1 It encourages participants to consider their own views and the views of their colleagues on migrants and migration, and to appreciate more fully the challenges that migrants face and the positive contributions that migrants make to their countries of origin and countries of destination. The guide is designed to support the work of OHCHR staff who operate in field presences and at headquarters, staff of other United Nations entities and international organizations, including members of the United Nations Network on Migration, officials of regional organizations, government officials, staff in national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), trade unionists, other relevant civil society actors and humanitarian actors.

Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration: Training Guide

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Document Type: Report

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  • OHCHR

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Place: New York, Geneva

Institution: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Date: 2023

Language: en

This training guide is designed to enable participants to understand the human rights perspective on migration, and how human rights laws and standards can be operationalized to make migration safer and an empowering experience for all. It provides an introduction to related principles and issues and is designed for persons with limited knowledge of human rights or migration. The goal of the course is to teach participants to recognize the scope and content of international human rights standards relevant to migrants, and so enable them to adopt a human rights-based approach in their work on migration. The learning objectives specify that, by the end of the course, participants will be able to: • Identify and apply relevant human rights standards to the situations that migrants face, particularly migrants in vulnerable situations; • Adopt a human rights-based approach to migrant issues; • Assess how international human rights mechanisms can help practically to realize migrants’ human rights at the national level; • Respond strategically, through policy and practice, to help realize migrants’ human rights; • Identify ways to strengthen activities on migration and human rights. Based on OHCHR’s human rights training methodology, this training guide aims not only to build knowledge and understanding of the human rights framework, but to enhance skills and attitudes that will enable practitioners to better promote and protect the human rights of migrants.1 It encourages participants to consider their own views and the views of their colleagues on migrants and migration, and to appreciate more fully the challenges that migrants face and the positive contributions that migrants make to their countries of origin and countries of destination. The guide is designed to support the work of OHCHR staff who operate in field presences and at headquarters, staff of other United Nations entities and international organizations, including members of the United Nations Network on Migration, officials of regional organizations, government officials, staff in national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), trade unionists, other relevant civil society actors and humanitarian actors.

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