A/RES/60/169 2. Strongly condemns also all forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia related to access to employment, vocational training, housing, schooling, health services and social services, as well as services intended for use by the public; Welcomes the active role played by governmental and non-governmental 3. organizations in combating racism and xenophobia and in assisting victims of racist acts, including migrant victims; Calls upon all States to consider reviewing and, where necessary, 4. revising immigration policies with a view to eliminating all discriminatory practices against migrants and their families and adopting effective action to create conditions that foster greater harmony, tolerance and respect within societies, and to provide specialized training for government policymaking, law enforcement, migration and other concerned officials, including in cooperation with non-governmental organizations and civil society; Requests States effectively to promote and protect the human rights and 5. fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their immigration status, especially those of women and children, in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights1 and the international instruments to which they are party, which may include the International Covenants on Human Rights,3 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 13 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 14 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 15 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 16 the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 17 and other relevant human rights instruments; Requests all States, international organizations and relevant stakeholders 6. to take into account in their policies and initiatives on migration issues the global character of the migratory phenomenon and to give due consideration to international, regional and bilateral cooperation in this field, with a view to addressing, in a comprehensive manner, its causes and consequences and granting priority to the protection of the human rights of migrants; Welcomes the increasing number of signatures and ratifications or 7. accessions to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and calls upon States that have not done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Convention as a matter of priority; Urges States parties to the United Nations Convention against 8. Transnational Organized Crime and supplementing protocols thereto, namely, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 18 to implement them fully, and calls upon States that have not done so to consider ratifying them as a matter of priority; _______________ 13 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841. Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378. 15 Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531. 16 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 17 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481. 18 Resolution 55/25, annexes I–III. 14 4