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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 11
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- The golden thread of such an approach would primarily be to address targets 10.7 and 8.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals through a rights-based, age- and gender-sensitive plan.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 38b
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- [Such facilitated mobility would have obvious advantages, including the fact that it would:] Enable all security checks by intelligence agencies to be made in a timely manner and mostly in the destination country;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 70
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- Mobility and diversity are already and will increasingly be the hallmark of contemporary societies, especially in dynamic urban areas which welcome most of the world’s migration. Often at opposite ends of the social spectrum, the arts community and the business community know that diversity and mobility contribute to the dissemination of creativity, innovation, ideas and know-how and to wealth production.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 12
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- The Special Rapporteur envisions an agenda that, building on target 10.7, outlines how human mobility can be facilitated effectively and underlines the importance of taking a long-term strategic approach to developing more accessible, regular, safe and affordable mobility policies and practices that will place States in a better position to respond to the significant demographic, economic, social, political and cultural challenges that lie ahead.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants 2016, para. 67
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- A recent shift towards incorporating mobility in framework agreements, memorandums of understanding and declarations of mutual cooperation has resulted in States treating labour mobility agreements as informal and non-binding. In Asia, almost 70 per cent of labour mobility arrangements employ the informal framework provided by memorandums of understanding, compared with 3040 per cent in Africa, Europe and the Americas.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants 2016, para. 14
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- The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade first introduced the concept of a multilateral trading system founded on the principles of non-discrimination and reciprocity. Adopted after the end of the Second World War, the Agreement aimed to significantly reduce tariffs and barriers to trade worldwide.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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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. 61
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- States assume obligations and duties under international law to respect, protect and fulfil human rights. These obligations and duties on States under international law are also broadly echoed by the standards within the European human rights system, which apply to all regardless of nationality and administrative status.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. Chapter V. A.
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- [Banning recruitment fees] Consider options for collective action to totally ban recruitment fees to level the playing field and ensure that concerns about international competitiveness will not impact wholesale transition to an ethical system
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. 59
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- Part of this monitoring and oversight is investment in effective data collection systems. An important step in a transition to an ethical system would be to include the gathering of disaggregated information about recruitment practices as an integral part of the development of metrics associated with the post-2015 sustainable development goals agenda.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. Chapter V. A.
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- [Engagement with the private sector] Include international business associations and trade unions, as well as the ILO, in dialogues with the private sector to utilize their reach and impact in support of transition to an ethical system of labour recruitment
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. Chapter V. A.
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- [Engagement with the private sector] Further sensitize private organizations about the human rights implications of business practices and support them in implementing the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in relation to recruitment practices
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Labour exploitation of migrants 2014, para. 77
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- Encourage and monitor the implementation by business enterprises of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The principles state that business enterprises are required to (a) avoid causing, or contributing to, adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, and to address such impacts when they occur; and (b) seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are directly linked to their operations.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 10
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- In the United Nations Millennium Declaration, Governments pledged to strive for the protection and promotion of all human rights, but the Goal framework failed to live up to that pledge. This state of affairs has demonstrated that issues left out of a universally agreed agenda are not effectively monitored and reported on and are easily overlooked when priorities are set, policies defined or budgets allocated. The Goals have been viewed by some as an economic growth agenda, not explicitly aligned with human rights. Yet, human rights are essential for sustainable development: Governments' legal obligations regarding international human rights standards must be reflected in current development policy in order to enhance effectiveness and accountability. By delinking the Goals from human rights, State obligations were reduced to mere policy options, for example on the issue of free primary education. In addition, given that international human rights standards did not form the basis on which the Goals were developed, the targets created were sometimes unambitious or inadequate. Research shows that the Goals were also often seen as donor driven because organizations based in the North focused more on the goals than on human rights, whereas those based in the South engaged more on human rights and hardly on the Goals.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Regional study: management of the European Union external border and the impact on the human rights of migrants 2013, para. 103
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- [Specific recommendation to European Union institutions:] [To the Special Representative for Human Rights and the EEAS:] Insist on the integration of human rights in the negotiation of mobility partnerships.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Global migration governance 2013, para. 86
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- There are several regional organizations in the world with some form of free movement for citizens of the organization's member States. It could be envisaged that at some point some of those initiatives could connect, thus expanding the free mobility area covered. However, there is an imperative need for a central human rights framework in all these processes.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Global migration governance 2013, para. 79
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- Bilateral agreements may be useful additions to regional or global approaches, particularly for neighbouring countries where there is a high level of mobility. The Special Rapporteur notes the challenges in ensuring transparency and the human rights dimension of bilateral agreements and in monitoring their human rights impact, as they are forms of private agreement between States and subject to the aforementioned power asymmetries between negotiating States.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Climate change and migration 2012, para. 35
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- While climate change may be felt across the globe, it is likely that its impacts will affect some individuals and groups more than others. At a global level, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reflected "sharp differences across regions". Developing States facing multiple stresses are likely to be the most severely affected, in particular in Africa, Asia and Oceania: megadeltas, small island developing States, and low-lying coastal and arid areas are most exposed to environmental migration.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 13
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- Notwithstanding that the principle of non-discrimination is well established in international human rights law, some misconceptions related to its applicability to non-nationals impede the universal implementation of the rights to health and adequate housing. Consequently, the enjoyment of these rights by non-nationals is often dictated by the host State's laws, policies and practical concerns.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. Chapter V. A.
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- [Regional and international cooperation] Continue dialogue through the regional consultative processes, ensuring that it is guided by the long-term, holistic thinking that is needed to achieve the whole-scale transition to an ethical recruitment system
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Regional study: management of the European Union external border and the impact on the human rights of migrants 2013, para. 12
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- The Special Rapporteur would like to thank everyone who took the time to meet with him and for sharing information about their perspectives and experiences. In particular, the Special Rapporteur expresses his appreciation for the support and cooperation extended by the European Union, and the member States he visited, in assisting with his study. He would also like to sincerely thank the OHCHR Regional Office for Europe for their indispensable support and assistance.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Regional study: management of the European Union external border and the impact on the human rights of migrants 2013, para. 11
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- The findings and recommendations emerging from these visits are presented in the four addenda to this report. Using the country visits as real case examples at the national level, this thematic report seeks to highlight some of the ongoing challenges in the development and implementation of policies, and to provide recommendations to assist the European Union and its member States in overcoming such challenges individually, bilaterally and regionally.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. Chapter V. A.
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- [Regional and international cooperation] Share good practices and intelligence on recruitment agencies between the different regional consultative networks. Consider seeking technical assistance from the International Labour Organization and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to support the wholesale transition to an ethical recruitment system, in line with core international human rights and labour standards
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility 2017, para. 34
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- In order to respond to the complexity of human mobility, as explained above, States are required to develop a long-term strategic vision of what their mobility policies will look like in a generation from now, with precise timelines and accountability benchmarks. Such a long-term vision is similar to the strategic planning of States for policies on energy, environment, trade, food security, public transit, infrastructure and industries, in order to determine the investments needed to achieve the objectives.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 43
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- A goal on equality should be broad, not only focusing on income disparities, but also identifying key dimensions of economic and social inequality, including in terms of participation and access to essential services such as health, education and social protection. This should be framed with reference to the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of all. In addition, targets and indicators relating to employment and fiscal or redistributive policies must be included under this goal and structural determinants of inequality should also be addressed.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. 32
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- Countries of origin can add to their nationals' difficulties as missions may show reluctance to support their pursuing judicial remedies, so as not to impact their competitiveness on the international labour recruitment market.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 13
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- In addition, the targets did not sufficiently address inequalities, which made it possible to achieve them without properly addressing marginalized groups. Instead of being transformative, the Goals were technocratic.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 96o
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- [Indicators for such a target should include:] Mutual recognition of foreign educational qualifications and the portability of social security benefits, including through the conclusion of bilateral and multilateral agreements.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 29
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- States assume obligations under international law to respect, protect and fulfil human rights. These obligations are also broadly echoed by the national human rights standards and regional instruments, which apply to all, regardless of nationality or administrative status.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. Chapter V. C.
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- [Recommendations to international organizations] Provide any requested technical cooperation to support Member States in transitioning towards an ethical system of international labour recruitment
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Recruitment practices and the human rights of migrants 2015, para. Chapter V. C.
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- [Recommendations to international organizations] The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights should pay attention to the issue of recruitment practices and consider developing guidelines
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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