This course deals with the care and protection of unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children moving across and between countries. This course will provide an understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities faced by these children. It will inform the improvement of policies and practices and provide support services that uphold children's rights and meet their best interests.

This course updates topics associated with women in the migration cycle and the context and understanding of comprehensive actions to address them. The content illustrates different points of analysis, such as the need for gender-sensitive data, understanding risk factors of migrant women, impacts of COVID-19, and links between human mobility with environmental degradation and climate change from a gender perspective.

The course is based on IOM's Handbook on Protection and Assistance for Migrants Vulnerable to Violence, Exploitation, and Abuse. It aims to provide students with a common understanding of vulnerability as described in the Determinants of Vulnerability of Migrants Model (DVM) and proposes tools to better identify and respond to migrants' vulnerabilities.

The overall objective of the course is to strengthen multi-sectoral coordinated quality services to respond to violence against women migrant workers. Specifically, the course aims to build an understanding of the intersectionality of violence against women migrant workers, focusing on the specific needs of women migrant workers, and the risks they face during their migration journey, and to understand key elements in providing essential services to them, based on good practices.