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Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 123d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The global compact should:] Ensure that States adopt measures to facilitate accessible, regular, safe and affordable migration and mobility channels at all skill levels, as well as family reunification and the regularization of undocumented migrants; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2016 | ||
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 51 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A target on providing social protection to reduce the vulnerabilities of the poor, including marginalized groups, including migrants, is essential. Indicators could include the proportion of migrants with access to, and cross-border portability of, earned social benefits (e.g. pensions). Under article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, States recognize the right of everyone to social security. In its general comment No. 19, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights defined the right to social security as encompassing "the right to access and maintain benefits, whether in cash or in kind, without discrimination in order to secure protection, inter alia, from (a) lack of work-related income caused by sickness, disability, maternity, employment injury, unemployment, old age, or death of a family member; (b) unaffordable access to health care; (c) insufficient family support, particularly for children and adult dependents". It went on to say that "the right to social security includes the right not to be subject to arbitrary and unreasonable restrictions of existing social security coverage, whether obtained publicly or privately, as well as the right to equal enjoyment of adequate protection from social risks and contingencies". | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2014 | ||
Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants 2011, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Children on the move are migrant children taking an active part in the migration process, particularly at the passage and arrival stages in countries of transit and destination. They may be found migrating with their family members or independently, to seek opportunities for both education and employment. Children may also be forcibly on the move, such as when falling prey to transnational organized crime and exploitation networks. Unaccompanied and separated children on the move faced greater vulnerabilities and risks, including discrimination, sexual and other forms of violence. Frequent human rights issues affecting children on the move also included deportation and repatriation. Children should be repatriated only if it is in their best interest, namely, for the purpose of family reunification and after due process of law. Another major concern related to the particular vulnerability of children who were unaccompanied, undocumented and/or entering countries irregularly, including within mixed migratory flows, to unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of liberty. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2011 | ||
The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. Target 6.2. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Ensure easy access for all migrants to basic services, including education and health]
Provide equal and equitable access for all migrants and members of their families to adequate, affordable, accessible and quality health care, including mental, sexual and reproductive health care, and to information and education, including on family planning | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2017 | ||
The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. Indicator (d) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Offer regular, safe, accessible and affordable mobility solutions to all migrants, regardless of their status or skill level]
Increased number of bilateral and multilateral visa facilitation and liberalization agreements, including for visits, work, job searches, family reunification, refugee resettlement, humanitarian activities, studies, internships, retirement and other purposes; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2017 | ||
The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 44 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In the New York Declaration, States committed to “consider facilitating opportunities for safe, orderly and regular migration, including, as appropriate, employment creation, labour mobility at all skills levels, circular migration, family reunification and education-related opportunities”. In order to implement that commitment, they need to develop and implement long-term national migration policies, in line with their obligations under international human rights law, ensuring that regular, safe, affordable and accessible avenues are available for all migrants. The overall goal in terms of governing mobility is for most migrants to use regular channels to enter and stay in destination countries, thereby reducing considerably the size of the underground migrant smuggling market. States must recognize and address what may be termed as the pull factors of migration, such as unrecognized demands for low-skilled labour in economic sectors that are not met locally, and provide safe, regular, accessible and affordable migration channels to meet the demand for such low-skilled jobs. When regular migration channels fail to properly reflect labour market needs, migrants are more likely to be offered undocumented migration solutions by smuggling rings and unethical recruiters and become victims of exploitation and abuse. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2017 | ||
The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 32 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In order to facilitate mobility, States must increase regular channels for migration and the taxation of mobility, through the progressive expansion of visa liberalization and easily accessible visa facilitation regimes and/or schemes, such as refugee settlement, temporary protection, visitor, family reunification, work, resident, retirement and student visas, with all the identity and security checks that efficient visa regimes can provide. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Many factors influence the decisions of migrants as to why, when, to where and how they want to migrate. The main push factors are poverty, violence, discrimination and poor governance. The main pull factors are official or unacknowledged labour needs and family reunification. Public discussion about these factors is, on the whole, extremely shallow, often constituting nothing more than scaremongering about “benefit scroungers” and migrants “stealing jobs”. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2017 | ||
Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 46f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Human rights must be a cross-cutting issue that informs all discussions at the High-level Dialogue, and, as outlined in the 2013 report of the Special Rapporteur (see A/68/283), States should consider raising issues such as:] Effective protection of the human rights of vulnerable groups, such as unaccompanied children, families with children, persons with disabilities and elderly migrants; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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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. 44 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Of particular concern is the inclusion of children among detainees. Children are usually afforded additional protections by member States and, according to many national policies, are not supposed to be detained. However, if the age of the child is unknown, which is common among those without documents or coming from countries that do not have robust birth registration systems, they can be detained or kept in reception centres until their age can be verified. This can take weeks or months. In some instances, while in detention, children live and sleep with adults, without any special accommodation made for their young age and without access to education. In others, families are separated in different sections of the detention facility according to age and gender. The detention of children, even for short periods, can have severe negative psychological effects. It has been made clear by the Committee on the Rights of the Child that immigration detention is never ever in the best interest of the child and that families of migrants should not be separated. Hence, unaccompanied minors and families with children should always benefit from alternatives to detention. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2015 | ||
Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 97 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Today's migration data focus on stocks and flows, which cannot give a clear understanding of the human rights situation of migrants and their families and communities in countries of origin, transit and destination. When qualitative and quantitative data on migrants are made available, they are often incomplete, in particular with regard to the most marginalized migrants, including those in an irregular situation, who are frequently not registered anywhere. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 89d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Indicators should include:] Time frame and coverage of laws that protect all migrants and their families against all forms of discrimination, labour exploitation, abuse, xenophobia, violence and related intolerance, with a focus on marginalized groups, including children and women; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Global migration governance 2013, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Only 46 States have ratified the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. However, it mainly restates rights which already follow from other treaties. All States have ratified at least one of the other core international human rights treaties and, owing to the non-discrimination principle, are thus obliged to respect the human rights of migrants, including those in an irregular situation. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Detention of migrants in an irregular situation 2012, para. 72f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Special Rapporteur calls on States to consider progressively abolishing the administrative detention of migrants. In the meantime, Governments should take measures to ensure respect for the human rights of migrants in the context of detention, including by:] Applying the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners to migrants under administrative detention, including providing for the separation of administrative detainees from criminal detainees; ensuring an adequate standard of accommodation, including minimum floor space, lighting, heating and ventilation; providing for adequate sanitary, bathing and shower installations; allowing administrative detainees to wear their own clothing, and provide facilities for their cleaning; a separate bed with clean bedding for each detainee; adequate food and drinking water; at least one hour of outdoor exercise daily; the right to communicate with relatives and friends and to have access to newspapers, books and religious advisers; ensuring the presence of at least one qualified medical officer who should have some knowledge of psychiatry, as well as a qualified dental officer; and ensuring the right to make a request or complaint to the central prison administration, judicial authorities or other proper authorities; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2012 | ||
Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 91 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States should provide parents and others responsible for the child with material assistance and support programmes, particularly with regard to housing. Irregular migrant families and their children should be provided with a minimum level of housing which ensures their basic needs. Throughout the process, the best interest of the child should be the paramount concern and the guiding principle. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2010 | ||
Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In addition, certain laws, policies and measures may indirectly hamper irregular migrant children's access to health. For instance, in some countries, a parent must be a regular migrant in order to obtain a birth certificate for her child, thus making access to health care difficult for children of migrants in irregular situations. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2010 | ||
Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Additionally, article 43 of the Convention on Migrant Workers specifically obliges States to ensure equal access to health care by regular migrant workers and their family members. The Convention also guarantees the right of migrant workers and their family members to receive any medical care that is urgently required for the preservation of their life or for the avoidance of irreparable harm to their health, regardless of their irregularity with regard to stay or employment (art. 28). | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2010 | ||
Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 101b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Detention of children should be a measure of last resort and should be for the shortest period of time possible. The deprivation of liberty of children in the context of migration should never have a punitive nature, accordingly:] States should bear in mind that children should be kept separate from non-related adults; if housed with families, they should have accommodation distinct from other adults. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 84a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In particular, States should:] Develop or strengthen programmes, including ensuring civil society participation, meant to tackle xenophobia in public speech and the media and discrimination and intolerance against migrants and their families; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 76 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States are encouraged to adopt and promote regularization programmes, plans and policies as a crucial strategy for ensuring migrants' rights, prevent human rights violations and abuses associated with irregular migration, address marginalization and facilitate the integration of migrants and their families in the communities of destination. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. Target 3.3. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Ensure respect for human rights at border controls, including return, readmission and post-return monitoring, and establish accountability mechanisms]
Respect and protect the human rights of all migrants at borders, both at entry and return, with special attention paid to vulnerable groups, such as unaccompanied children, families with children, pregnant women, persons with disabilities, asylum seekers, refugees, potential victims of trafficking and elderly migrants | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 60 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The impact of prolonged detention, coupled with the frequently inhuman detention conditions (namely, overcrowding, unsanitary personal hygiene facilities and kitchens and insufficient access to health care, family members, lawyers, international or civil society organizations and physical and recreational activities), has a devastating effect on the physical and mental health of migrants. Long periods of immigration detention can also lead to sustained barriers to the ability of migrants to claim their economic and social rights, even after having been released. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 64 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Special Rapporteur recommends that States develop and incentivize accessible, regular, safe and affordable migration channels at all skill levels and consider a variety of options for regular migration, such as humanitarian visas, temporary protection, family reunification, work permits at all skill levels, as well as for migration for job seeking, student mobility and medical evacuation. States can also increase the number of migrants admitted under existing regular migration schemes, including for seasonal workers and student visas. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2016 | ||
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. 101 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [To the European Union and its member States] Develop and incentivize other regular and safe migration channels, including for workers with varying skills levels, including for low-wage workers. Look at a variety of options for legal migration, such as humanitarian admission, humanitarian visas, temporary protection, family reunification, economic admissions at all skills levels, as well as for job seeking, student mobility and medical evacuation, in line with the suggestions of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2015 | ||
Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants 2011, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Migrants may be more vulnerable to poor health by virtue of their often low socio-economic status, the process of migration and their vulnerability as non-nationals in the new country. The mental health of migrants was also an issue of concern, as factors such as social isolation caused by separation from family and social networks, job insecurity, difficult living conditions and exploitative treatment could have adverse affects. The processes of migratory movement may also have a significant negative impact on the health of migrants before they arrived in the host country. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In general, the constraints on the rights of adult migrants immediately have an adverse impact on the rights of their children, and in the long term, may inhibit the children's development. Reports suggest that poor working and economic conditions for migrant adults affect the general health and welfare of their children, as manifested in the birth of premature babies and increased risks of serious illness or death. Further, where migrant parents are deprived of health care, their children will also likely be deprived of such care. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2010 | ||
Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 49 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. Indicator (d) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Protect all migrants from all forms of discrimination and violence, including racism, xenophobia, sexual and gender-based violence and hate speech]
Significant investment is made in mechanisms for providing information and education on a culture of diversity, the focus of which is to create awareness of the cultural, social and economic contributions of migrants, support the reintegration of migrants and their families into their countries of origin, empower marginalized groups, including migrants, in the social, political and economic fields, and empower migrants to combat all forms of discrimination, labour exploitation, abuse, xenophobia, violence and related intolerance. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 67 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Migrants may be more vulnerable to poor health by virtue of their often low socioeconomic status, the sometimes harrowing process of migration and their vulnerability as non-nationals in the new country. The mental health of migrants is an issue of concern, with factors such as human rights violations before or during the migration process, social isolation caused by separation from family and social networks, job insecurity, difficult living conditions, detention and exploitative treatment potentially having adverse effects. Migrant women and girls often experience more problematic pregnancy and gynaecological health issues as compared with the host population. Those working in domestic services face widespread physical, sexual and psychological abuse and thus require urgent health care and protection. Access to health care for migrants and the level of such care, however, varies enormously, depending on State policies and the immigration status of the migrant. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Although the economic incentives to migrate are diverse and, for many, very strong, they are constantly evaluated and scrutinized by potential migrants. It is true that most migrants try to go to countries where there are jobs and where they can start integrating into society and creating a future for themselves and their families. It is equally true that prime destination countries have jobs available for migrants in the official or underground labour markets. Migrants respond to the demand for labour, and, under normal circumstances, when demand declines in a particular area, so does migration to it. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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