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22. Governments and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, should create
opportunities and remove barriers that hinder elderly women and men from continuing to contribute their skills
to their families, to the workforce and to their communities, in order to help to foster intergenerational solidarity
and enhance the well-being of society. This will require life-long education and opportunities for retraining.
23. The United Nations system should, provided that additional resources are made available, document the
positive experience of policies and programmes in the area of ageing of men and women and disseminate
information and recommendations about those practices. Countries should be enabled, through adequate training
and capacity-building, to evolve their own policies appropriate to their cultures, traditions and socio-economic
circumstances.
C. International migration
24. Governments in both countries of origin and countries of destination, including through international
cooperation, are urged:
(a) To intensify efforts to protect the human rights and dignity of migrants irrespective of their legal status;
provide effective protection for migrants; provide basic health and social services, including sexual and
reproductive health and family-planning services; facilitate family reunification of documented migrants; monitor
violations of the human rights of migrants; effectively enforce the laws applicable to the protection of human
rights; and ensure the social and economic integration of documented migrants, especially of those who have
acquired the right to long-term residence in the country of destination, and their equal treatment before the law.
Non-governmental organizations should play a valuable role in meeting the needs of migrants;
(b) To prevent trafficking in migrants, in particular women and children subjected to forced labour or sexual
or commercial exploitation; to develop clear penalties for such trafficking and migrant smuggling, backed by
effective administrative procedures and laws, ensuring punishment of those who commit such crimes; and to
finalize as soon as possible the trafficking and smuggling protocols which are currently being negotiated by the
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;
(c) To support and ensure effective follow-up to bilateral and multilateral initiatives, including regional and
subregional consultation processes, where appropriate, to develop national policies and cooperative strategies to
maximize the benefits and manage the challenges posed by international migration;
(d) To conduct public information campaigns on migration in both countries of origin and countries of
destination so that racist and xenophobic attitudes in countries of destination are combated and so that potential
migrants fully understand the implications of the decisions to move;
(e) To consider ratifying or acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,2 if they have not already done so.
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Resolution 45/158, annex.
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