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Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 17 and calls
upon States that have not done so to consider urgently signing and ratifying or
acceding to them;
Reaffirms emphatically the duty of States parties to ensure full respect
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for and observance of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963, 18 in
particular with regard to the right of all foreign nationals to communicate with a
consular official of the sending State in the case of arrest, imprisonment, custody or
detention, and the obligation of the receiving State to inform without delay the
foreign national of his or her rights under the Convention;
Calls upon States to promote and protect fully the human rights of
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migrants, as set out in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,8 through,
inter alia, the adoption of national plans of action as recommended by the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance;
Also calls upon all States to consider reviewing and, where necessary,
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revising immigration policies with a view to eliminating all discriminatory practices
against migrants and their families, and to provide specialized training for
government policy-making, law enforcement, migration and other concerned
officials, including in cooperation with non-governmental organizations and civil
society, thus underlining the importance of effective action to create conditions that
foster greater harmony and tolerance within societies;
Welcomes immigration programmes, adopted by some countries, that
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allow migrants to integrate fully into the host countries, facilitate family
reunification and promote a harmonious and tolerant environment, and encourages
States to consider the possibility of adopting these types of programmes;
10. Requests all States, in conformity with national legislation and applicable
international legal instruments to which they are party, firmly to prosecute
violations of labour law with regard to the conditions of work of migrant workers,
including those related to, inter alia, their remuneration and the conditions of health
and safety at work;
11. Encourages all States to remove obstacles that may prevent the safe,
unrestricted and expeditious transfer of earnings, assets and pensions of migrants to
their country of origin or to any other countries, in conformity with applicable
legislation, and to consider, as appropriate, measures to solve other problems that
may impede such transfers;
12. Urges all States to adopt effective measures to put an end to the arbitrary
arrest and detention of migrants and to take action to prevent and punish any form
of illegal deprivation of liberty of migrants by individuals or groups;
13. Calls upon States to observe national legislation and applicable
international legal instruments to which they are party when enacting national
security measures in order to respect the human rights of migrants;
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Resolution 55/25, annexes I–III.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 596, No. 8638.