Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 20
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The continued ineffectiveness and paradoxes of border management and the lack of a coherent, human rights-based framework for migration have been vividly and visibly demonstrated by the tragic deaths of migrants in transit, propelling the issue of the human rights of migrants into the spotlight. Although less frequently discussed, suffering is experienced at all other stages of migration.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants