A/HRC/RES/36/5 October 2009, 29/12 of 2 July 2015, 33/7 of 29 September 2016 and 35/17 of 22 June 2017, Commission on Population and Development resolution 2013/1 of 26 April 2013, entitled “New trends in migrations: demographic aspects”, and the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, adopted on 3 October 2013, Reaffirming the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the annexes thereto, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 71/1 of 19 September 2016, Reaffirming also the commitments expressed in the New York Declaration, in which Member States recognized — and expressed their willingness to address, in accordance with their obligations under international law — the special needs of all people in vulnerable situations who are travelling within large movements of refugees and migrants, including children, especially those who are unaccompanied or separated from their families, and affirming that children should not be criminalized or subject to punitive measures because of their migration status or that of their parents, Taking note of the reports submitted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the panel discussion on unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights held at the thirty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council 1 and on the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants in the context of large movements, submitted to the Council at its thirty-third session,2 Taking note with appreciation of the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, especially the reports in which the mandate holder addressed the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, in particular his report on the human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility, presented to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session,3 Noting the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child related to unaccompanied and separated children, including its general comment No. 6 (2005) on treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, and to the outcome of the 2012 day of general discussion on the rights of all children in the context of international migration, Acknowledging the important contribution made by migrants and migration to development in countries of origin, transit and destination, and the complex interrelationship between migration and development, Looking forward to the outcome of the ongoing combined work of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Committee on the Rights of the Child to develop a joint general comment on the human rights of children in the context of international migration, Taking note with appreciation of the report submitted by the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee at the present session on the study on the global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights,4 in which the Committee defines the areas, reasons and cases in which this issue arises in the world, and the way in which human rights are threatened and violated, and makes recommendations for the consideration of States on how to protect the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, 1 2 3 4 2 A/HRC/36/21. A/HRC/33/67. A/HRC/35/25. A/HRC/36/51.