Children, Adolescents and Migration: Filling the Evidence Gap
UNICEF and the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) have developed estimates of the global stock of international migrant children and adolescents. These estimates will allow policy-makers to understand the patterns of child and adolescent migration across the world and to support partners in developing countries and developed countries to formulate coherent policies to assure the rights of migrant children and adolescents in accordance with the 1990 Convention of the Rights of the Child and other relevant international instruments. As a first step, a database was created to collect all available tabulations of the international migrant stock by age and sex.