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(f)
Calls upon States that have not done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding
to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families as a matter of priority, and requests the Secretary-General to
continue his efforts to promote and to raise awareness of the Convention;
2.
Also reaffirms the duty of States to effectively promote and protect the human rights
and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, especially those of women and children, regardless of
their immigration status, in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the
international instruments to which they are party, and therefore:
(a)
Urges all States to adopt effective measures to put an end to the arbitrary arrest and
detention of migrants and to take actions to prevent and punish any form of illegal deprivation of
liberty of migrants by individuals or groups;
(b)
Takes note with appreciation of States that have successfully implemented
alternative measures to detention for undocumented migrants and requests the Special
Rapporteur, other special procedures of the Council and the High Commissioner for Human
Rights to pay special attention to cases of arbitrary detention of migrants, particularly of migrant
children and adolescents;
(c)
Requests States to adopt concrete measures in order to prevent the violation of the
human rights of migrants while in transit, including in ports and airports and at borders and
migration checkpoints, and to train public officials who work in those facilities and in border
areas to treat migrants and their families respectfully and in accordance with the law;
(d)
Also requests States to prosecute, in conformity with applicable law, any act of
violation of the human rights of migrants and their families, inter alia, arbitrary detention, torture
and violations of the right to life, including extrajudicial executions during their transit from their
country of origin to the country of destination and vice versa, including their transit through
national borders;
(e)
Reaffirms emphatically the duty of States parties to ensure full respect for and
observance of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, particularly with regard to the right
of foreign nationals, regardless of their immigration status, to communicate with a consular