A/HRC/44/42
I. Introduction
1.
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 34/21.
It contains information on the activities of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of
migrants since the submission of the report to the seventy-fourth session of the General
Assembly (A/74/191). The thematic section is dedicated to the right to freedom of
association of migrants.
II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur
A.
Country visits
2.
The Special Rapporteur, Felipe González Morales, undertook a visit to Hungary
from 10 to 17 July 2019 (A/HRC/44/42/Add.1). He also conducted a visit to Bosnia and
Herzegovina from 24 September to 1 October 2019 (A/HRC/44/42/Add.2).
3.
The visit to El Salvador, initially scheduled for 2020, was postponed to 2021 at the
request of the Government. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of Kuwait,
which has extended an invitation to conduct a visit in 2020. The Special Rapporteur looks
forward to receiving invitations from other Member States for official visits in 2020 and the
near future.
B.
Other activities
4.
On 2 August 2019, the Special Rapporteur conducted a workshop on access to
justice for migrants in Montevideo, with judges, public defenders and other practitioners in
the judicial system.
5.
On 21 August, the Special Rapporteur held a webinar with English-speaking civil
society organizations from Africa on the situation of migrants’ rights.
6.
On 4 September, he delivered a speech at the commemoration of the sixtieth
anniversary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the University of Chile
in Santiago.
7.
On 5 September, the Special Rapporteur held a webinar with French-speaking civil
society organizations from Africa.
8.
On 9 September, during the regular session of the Committee on Migrant Workers,
he delivered a presentation and exchanged views with members of the Committee through a
video link.
9.
On 8 October, he held an online consultation with a number of civil society
organizations based in the Americas.
10.
During his trip to New York to participate in the General Assembly, the Special
Rapporteur had a series of meetings with representatives of States from 16 to 18 October.
He also held a meeting on 16 October at Columbia Law School with members of civil
society organizations from the United States of America. On 18 October, he gave a
presentation at an event on migrants’ rights to association, assembly and freedom of
expression organized by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and Solidarity
Center.
11.
On November 6, the Special Rapporteur gave a lecture at the University Carlos III of
Madrid on the special procedures of the Human Rights Council and the work of his
mandate.
12.
On 12 and 13 November, a commemoration marking the twentieth anniversary of
the mandate was held at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. The Special
Rapporteur invited representatives of Member States, United Nations agencies, civil society
and national human rights institutions to take stock of the 20 years of the mandate and
discuss the way forward. Some 25 panellists from all regions of the world participated in
six different panels.
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