A/HRC/17/33
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 March 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of
migrants, Jorge Bustamante
Summary
This is the final report submitted to the Human Rights Council by the outgoing
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge Bustamante. In the first,
substantive part of the report he recapitulates some of the main thematic issues he has
focused on since his nomination, namely irregular migration and criminalization of
migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health
of migrants. In the second part, he proposes a few themes where he considers further
research by the mandate could add value to the protection of the human rights of migrants.
The two themes he considers important for further research and discussion are migration in
the context of climate change, and the political participation and civil rights of migrants.
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