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Sales

In line with IOM’s Environment Policy publications are mostly available online only. Printed hard copies have not been made in order to reduce paper, printing and transportation related impacts.

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Copyright and Terms of Use

Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO

From 2021 IOM publications hosted on this platform are copyrighted under the Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC-ND IGO license. Select older publications are also copyrighted under this license where indicated. The following is a summary of the Creative Commons IGO license, explaining the terms of use of the publications on this platform. For the full legal code, please click here.[1]

© IOM 2021

Some rights reserved. This work is made available under the  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO).

Under the terms of this licence, this work may be used, copied, published and redistributed for non-commercial purposes* provided that (1) the work is correctly/appropriately cited (as above) (2) the publication is not used, published or redistributed for purposes primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation, with the exception of educational purposes eg. to be included in textbooks and (3) any adaptation, derivative work or alteration to this work may not be redistributed. Translations of this work are considered adaptations for the purpose of this license for which permission should be requested from IOM via the contact details below.

This license means that you are free to:

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Attribution: You must give appropriate credit to IOM as the creator of publications hosted on this platform. When using, copying or redistributing the publication, the suggested citation must be used where applicable.

Non-Commercial: The publication may not be used, published or redistributed for purposes primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

No Derivatives: Any adaptation, derivative work or alteration to publications hosted on this platform may not be redistributed. Translations of publications are considered adaptations for the purpose of this license for which permission should be requested from IOM via the contact details below.

Dispute resolution: Any mediation relating to disputes arising under the licence shall be conducted in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) as at present in force.

Permissions:  Requests for commercial use or further rights and licensing should be submitted to: publications@iom.int

Additional specification:

In relation to the non-commercial condition mentioned above, IOM allows the use, publishing and redistribution of its publications for educational purposes regardless of a commercial nature.

Use of this work must be consistent with the mandate and values of IOM. In any use of this work, there should be no suggestion that IOM endorses any specific organization, products or services.

Miscellaneous

Nothing in these terms and conditions affects the privileges and immunities enjoyed by IOM as an intergovernmental organization.

 

 

[1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/legalcode.