A/RES/74/148 Protection of migrants (d) Calls upon States to ensure that their laws and policies, including in the areas of counter-terrorism and combating transnational organized crime, such as trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants, fully respect the human rights of migrants; (e) Calls upon States that have not done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 13 as a matter of priority, and requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to promote and raise awareness of the Convention; (f) Takes note of the reports of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on its twenty -seventh and twenty-eighth sessions 26 and its twenty-ninth and thirtieth sessions; 27 5. Also reaffirms the duty of States to effectively promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, especially those of women and children, regardless of their migration status, in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international instruments to which they are party, and therefore: (a) Calls upon all States to respect the human rights and inherent dignity of migrants, to put an end to arbitrary arrest and detention and, bearing in mind the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, 17 to review policies that deny migrants the full enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, to pursue alternatives to detention while assessments of migration status are under way and to take into account measures that have been successfully implemented by some States; (b) Encourages States to put in place, if they have not yet done so, appropriate systems and procedures in order to ensure that the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in all actions or decisions concerning migrant children, regardless of their migration status, and, when applicable, to work towards ending the detention of migrant children; (c) Also encourages States to cooperate and to take appropriate measures, in full conformity with their obligations under international human rights law, to prevent, combat and address the smuggling of migrants, including strengthening laws, policies, information-sharing and joint operational functions, enhancing capacities and supporting opportunities for migration in a well-managed, safe and dignified manner and strengthening legislative methods for criminalizing acts of smuggling migrants, particularly women and children; (d) Urges all States to adopt effective measures to prevent and punish an y form of illegal deprivation of liberty of migrants by individuals or groups; (e) Requests States to adopt concrete measures to prevent the violation of the human rights of migrants while in transit, including in ports and airports and at borders and migration checkpoints, and to adequately train public officials who work in those facilities and in border areas to treat migrants respectfully and in accordance with their obligations under international human rights law; (f) Underlines the right of migrants to return to their country of citizenship, and recalls that States must ensure that their returning nationals are duly received; (g) Calls upon States to analyse and implement, where appropriate, mechanisms for the safe and orderly administration of ret urning migrants, with __________________ 26 27 6/11 Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 48 (A/73/48). Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 48 (A/74/48). 19-22252