The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 54
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States must increase their search and rescue capacity and refrain from pushbacks at land and sea borders. The militarization of border control creates unnecessary suffering and leads to violations of human rights and humanitarian law at borders. States need to develop procedures, guidelines or systems for ensuring that search and rescue is implemented as a paramount objective, taking into account what should be done with those who are rescued.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants