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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 65
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- The Special Rapporteur welcomes the interest and activities undertaken by international organizations and civil society to explore, together with Member States and other stakeholders, alternative measures to immigration detention as a way to help States improve their compliance with their human rights obligations in relation to the treatment of migrants. In this regard, the Special Rapporteur praises the pilot project on alternatives to detention for families with children who are awaiting return that has been carried out in Belgium since October 2008 as a practical and positive example of greater cooperation between Governments and civil society in monitoring and evaluation of alternative measures to detention.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
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Recapitulation of main thematic issues (irregular migration and criminalization of migrants; protection of children in the migration process; the right to housing and health of migrants) 2011, para. 17
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- The Special Rapporteur focused on three main thematic issues during his term as mandate holder, namely, criminalization of irregular migration, protection of children in the context of migration, and the rights of migrants to health and adequate housing. They are briefly summarized below. As a general rule, the Special Rapporteur held that the guiding principle of migration governance must be the fulfilment and protection for all migrants, regardless of their immigration status, of their internationally recognized human rights at all stages of the migratory processes - in countries or territories of origin, transit and destination (A/65/222, para. 67).
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
Global migration governance 2013, para. 80
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- Migration policies are formulated mainly at the national level, despite migration being by definition transnational. Good governance at the national level is thus a basis for more effective cooperation at the regional and global levels. This can be achieved by establishing a coherent approach at the national level, addressing all stages of the migration process, coordinated across government and developed in widespread consultation with the private sector, civil society and migrants themselves. Ministries responsible for, inter alia, health, education, employment, children and social policies should be fully involved in the elaboration of migration policies.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
Regional study: management of the European Union external border and the impact on the human rights of migrants 2013, para. 52
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- For example, the Special Rapporteur repeatedly witnessed inadequate procedures for detention, including the failure to guarantee proper legal representation, lack of access for detainees to consular services, and interpretation or translation services, lack of appropriate detection procedures for vulnerable individuals and lack of recourse to effective remedies. Conditions of detention were also precarious, with inadequate health care or psychosocial support, and prison-like conditions. In Tunisia, Turkey and Greece, he also witnessed the detention of children and families, and the lack of a proper system of guardianship for children. In all countries visited, he observed the detention of persons without prospect of removal, and a quasi-total absence of meaningful alternatives to detention mechanisms.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 47a
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- [Indicators under this goal could include:] Proportion of migrant children and children of migrants under 5 years of age whose birth is registered with a competent civil authority;
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 62
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- According to article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the right to education is a universal right. As recognized by Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its general comment No. 13, education is the "primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalized adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities". The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in its general recommendation No. 30, has highlighted the need for States to ensure that all migrant children, irrespective of their status, have access to public educational institutions. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, in its general comment No. 9, endorsed the concept of inclusive education as "a set of values, principles and practices that seeks meaningful, effective, and quality education for all students, that does justice to the diversity of learning conditions and requirements not only of children with disabilities, but for all students".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 64a
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- [Targets should include:] All children, including migrant children, irrespective of their status and circumstances, have equal access to and complete free, inclusive and quality primary and secondary education;
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 64c
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- [Targets should include:] All children, including migrant children, irrespective of their status and circumstances, receive culturally appropriate education;
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 63
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- A well-organized migration policy based on mobility and human rights could also help States to enhance their development impact. In 2015, migrants sent approximately $432 billion in remittances. Migrants who moved from countries with a low human development index to countries with a higher development index experienced, on average, a 15-fold increase in income, a doubling in education enrolment rates and a 16-fold reduction in child mortality. If the human rights of migrants are effectively respected, protected and promoted within well-regulated migration processes, such development outcomes can be greatly enhanced.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
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Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 11
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- Many migrants move voluntarily in a safe and regular manner and live and work in conditions in which their labour and human rights are respected. In some circumstances, families are reunified. Others are forced to migrate as a result of push factors, including poverty, discrimination, violence, conflict, political upheaval and poor governance, and pull factors, including official or unacknowledged labour needs, as explained above, or for family reunification. Children are disproportionately represented among those forcibly displaced. In the context of natural disasters and climate change, migration is increasingly seen as an adaptation measure ensuring resilience through planned mobility. In the process of migration, many face exploitation, discrimination, abuse and other human rights violations.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
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The impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants 2016, para. 43
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- Trade unions have been critical partners in the prevention of human trafficking and forced labour. The International Trade Union Confederation and the International Union of Food Workers, for example, have played a critical role in curtailing forced labour in the cocoa industry in Côte d'Ivoire by advocating implementation of the Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and Their Derivative Products in a Manner that Complies with ILO Convention No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. A partnership between the confederation of workers Rerum Novarum, of Costa Rica, and the Sandinista Workers' Centre and the Confederación de Unificación Sindical, of Nicaragua, led to the creation of the Trade Union Centre for Migrants, which offers free legal and administrative assistance to all migrant workers seeking regularization and aims to combat trafficking in children by partnering with the local taxi drivers' union.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
The impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants 2016, para. 60
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- Migrant children have unique concerns in the context of trade, as they comprise a significant proportion of child labourers in informal sectors, as well as in the commercial sex industry. In 2010, in the context of the trade agreement between Panama and the United States, the National Bureau against Child Labour and for the Protection of Adolescent Workers was established within the Panamanian labour department. The partnership agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union, also known as the Cotonou Agreement, provided for the creation of cooperative education programmes towards the elimination of child labour.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
Banking on mobility over a generation: follow-up to the regional study on the management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human rights of migrants 2015, para. 65
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- The development of a human rights-based framework goes beyond protection at sea. Stepping up the creation of alternatives to detention, particularly for children, is another issue of concern that should also be a priority.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
Paragraph
The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 46
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- Through resettlement programmes for refugees and the provision of humanitarian visas and other opportunities, it is well within the means of States to develop the mechanisms necessary for providing resettlement opportunities to refugees. A worldwide, well-governed distribution key that provides resettlement programmes for refugees and humanitarian visas and other opportunities will create a reliable long-term programme and ensure that a large number of refugees will seek resettlement rather than spend large sums of money and risk their lives and those of their children in smuggling operations. This would considerably reduce the market for smugglers, as well as the cost of refugee status determination procedures in the countries of destination.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2017
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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 49
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- The Special Rapporteur wishes to draw the General Assembly's attention to the impact and consequences that immigration-related detention of adults may have on their children, particularly in connection with their rights to development, family life and mental health. In his view, adopting a child-rights approach, which considers the child's best interests, will require alternative policies to address the migration status of their parents, including measures that facilitate regularization, access to social rights and family unity, rather than resorting to the criminal justice system.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 51
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- The Special Rapporteur also wishes to draw the General Assembly's attention to the dearth of qualitative and quantitative information regarding the experiences of migrant children (both unaccompanied and with their families) within migration control measures (e.g., information about their treatment at borders and in detention centres). He also wishes to draw attention to the increase of exploitation of migrant children for economic purposes and regrets that indicators on these issues are absent in most transit and destination countries, and that monitoring mechanisms both governmental and non-governmental, are quite scarce.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
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Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 38
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- The Special Rapporteur also expresses particular concern about the administrative detention of migrant children and recalls his earlier pronouncements that the detention of migrant children should be a last resort. He notes with concern that children suffering from serious medical conditions as well as children with disabilities were routinely kept in detention despite guidelines stating clearly they should not be. The health concerns for migrant children in detention are further exacerbated by the provision of inadequate medical services and treatment. Further, there is a failure to properly diagnose the mental health of children as well as inadequate access to counselling and other assistance.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2010
Paragraph
Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 37
- Paragraph text
- The Special Rapporteur is also concerned about the disproportionate use of force by security forces at borders, which, according to information received, has led to shootings and deaths of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees. In this regard, the Special Rapporteur wishes to recall that international law and human rights standards demand that the use of force by law enforcement officials must be proportionate to the actual threat faced, and wishes to discuss, in the present report, the impact of the criminalization of irregular migration on asylum-seekers, victims of trafficking and children.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
Paragraph
Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants 2011, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- The term "children left behind" refers to children raised in their home countries or in their countries of habitual residence who have been left behind by adult migrants responsible for them. The impact of migration on children left behind was difficult to measure. Many factors played a role in assessing how migration may affect the rights of children left behind. The inclusion of measures to promote family unity and facilitate the reunion of children with their parents in host countries was also necessary to address adequately the special needs and protection of children left behind. Many parents and other family members initially migrated without children, but subsequently planned to bring them to a host country.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- Development targets that pay no attention to which groups are being left behind can be met without having any real impact on ensuring a more equal and just world. The focus should not be on simply reducing the cost and increasing the flow of remittances, but rather on the human cost of migration. In many countries, the most marginalized and exploited migrants are those who are in an irregular situation, have a precarious labour contract, are low-skilled, are children or adolescents, are women, in particular in domestic work, or are working in the construction, hospitality, extraction, fishing and agricultural sectors. Such migrants experience multiple forms of discrimination, on the basis of nationality, legal status, sector of work, sex, age and ethnic, linguistic or religious identity.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Regional study: management of the European Union external border and the impact on the human rights of migrants 2013, para. 72
- Paragraph text
- Another overarching problem is the lack of institutionalized family reunification for irregular migrants, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, asylum seekers, and, in particular, unaccompanied migrant children. While it is true that the Dublin Regulation provides that unaccompanied minors are to be sent to a member State where a parent or guardian is present, this is often not carried out in practice due to lack of capacity and coordination. Unaccompanied children, whatever their administrative status, should always be sent to countries where they have some family ties, when this is in their best interests. The Special Rapporteur hopes that the new Common European Asylum System (CEAS) will assist in remedying these issues.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 100
- Paragraph text
- For meaningful national plans, policies and programmes to be developed and implemented, States must focus on collecting and assessing data on the human rights situation of migrants. States can collect data from sources such as censuses, population surveys, labour force and household surveys, administrative records, public services, the justice system, national human rights institutions, trade unions and civil society organizations. The participation of hard-to-count migrant populations, such as short-term, circular, irregular and child migrants, trafficked persons, refugees and asylum seekers, in the design of surveys and other data collection instruments and in the dissemination and analysis of data will improve the relevance and quality of data. Migration governance institutions should also be able to ensure that the data, including the identities of those who participated in the production thereof, are protected and kept confidential.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Labour exploitation of migrants 2014, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, requires States parties to prevent and criminalize trafficking, and to protect victims. The definition of trafficking includes the recruitment, transportation or receipt of persons by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, fraud or deception, to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation, including forced labour, slavery or servitude.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Labour exploitation of migrants 2014, para. 55
- Paragraph text
- A high proportion of child labourers in agriculture, domestic and different types of informal work, as well as in commercial sexual exploitation, are migrants. Frequent restrictions in access to educational services often leave migrant children with no choice but to work. Child labour in the informal economy includes petty trading, begging, portering, etc. Protection against exploitation is frequently lacking due to insufficient regulation and monitoring, as activities in the informal economy are not always categorized as work. During one of his country visits, the Special Rapporteur was informed of seasonal movements of children to neighbouring countries for begging and other forms of forced labour. He heard about children as young as seven leaving their country on short-term migration to beg, collect cans and pick tomatoes, and perform other types of agricultural work abroad. Migrant children who are domestic workers are at particular risk of abuse due to their young age and isolation from their families, and dependence on their employers. Migrant children who work as domestic workers or who live and work in factories and sweatshops are sometimes confined to the premises of the employer where they face further physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 33
- Paragraph text
- The Convention on the Rights of the Child extensively provides for the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (art. 24). In that same article, obligations are placed on States to make every effort "to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health care services" by, inter alia, providing children with "necessary medical assistance and health care" and ensuring "appropriate prenatal and post-natal healthcare for mothers".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2010
Paragraph
The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 57
- Paragraph text
- The return of migrants who do not meet the required international or national legal standards to remain in their host country must be conducted in safety, with regard to dignity and respect for human rights, on the basis of: (a) the primacy of voluntary returns; (b) cooperation between States of origin and reception; and (c) enhanced reception and reintegration assistance for those who are returned. Children, whether unaccompanied, separated or accompanied by their parents or other caregivers, should only be returned or repatriated when it has been determined to be in their best interest through an appropriate procedure before a competent institution with proper representation of the child. Families should never be separated unless separation is necessary to ensure the best interest of the child.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2017
Paragraph
The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 61
- Paragraph text
- Unaccompanied migrant children and families with children must never be detained for reasons relating to their administrative immigration status. The detention of children, even for short periods, can have severe psychological consequences for their development. The Committee on the Rights of the Child and other human rights mechanisms have made it clear that immigration detention can never, ever, be in the best interest of a child and that the immigration detention of children, whether unaccompanied or with their families, always constitutes a violation of their rights. Consequently, both unaccompanied migrant children and families with children should always be provided with alternatives to detention.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2017
Paragraph
Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants 2011, para. 44
- Paragraph text
- The Special Rapporteur noted with regret the widespread practices of forced evictions of migrants around the world. There were many instances where migrants, most often vulnerable groups such as irregular migrants, asylum-seekers and unaccompanied children, were forcibly evicted from their homes without adequate notice, prior consultation or alternative accommodation. These practices of forced evictions clearly undermined not only migrants' right to adequate housing, but also other related rights such as the rights to health, food, water and education.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants 2011, para. 26
- Paragraph text
- The Special Rapporteur also focused on the protection of children in the context of migration, recalling the obligation of the State to ensure the protection of all children in all stages of the migration process. He presented an overview of the international legal framework applicable, proposed a conceptual framework and referred briefly to three categories of children affected by the migration process: those left behind by migrating family members; migrant children moving across borders; and migrant children in host countries.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
The impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants 2016, para. 61
- Paragraph text
- For children whose parents are migrant workers, being excluded from education and health systems in the destination country can have lasting consequences on physical and mental health and development. In its 2004 publication "Free trade and children", the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sheds light on the situation of migrant children, in the context of CAFTA-DR, who are disproportionately at risk of poverty, family disintegration and malnutrition because of declines in the agricultural sector and rural employment.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph