return of migrants who are undocumented or in an irregular situation, taking into account
bilateral and regional initiatives and arrangements that aim at addressing, inter alia, the return
and reinsertion of those migrants, in conformity with her mandate as contained in
Commission resolution 1999/44;
29.
Requests the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out her mandate and within the
framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all other international human
rights instruments, to request, receive and exchange information on violations of the human
rights of migrants, wherever they may occur, from Governments, treaty bodies, specialized
agencies and the special mechanisms of the Commission, as well as from intergovernmental
organizations, other competent organizations of the United Nations system and
non-governmental organizations, including migrants’ organizations, and to respond
effectively to such information, as well as to continue, as part of the Rapporteur’s activities,
her programme of visits, which contribute to improving the protection afforded to the human
rights of migrants and to the broad and full implementation of all the aspects of her mandate;
30.
Also requests the Special Rapporteur to report to the General Assembly at its
sixtieth session and to the Commission at its sixty-second session and to include in her annual
reports a chapter on the impact of the legislation and the measures adopted by some States
that restrict the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants;
31.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and her
Office, as well as the Special Rapporteur, to ensure that the perspective of human rights of
migrants is included in the ongoing analysis on migration and development within the
United Nations system, including at the high-level dialogue that will be held during the
sixty-first session of the General Assembly, pursuant to resolution 58/208 of 23 December
2003;
32.
Requests the Secretary-General to give the Special Rapporteur all the necessary
human and financial assistance for the fulfilment of her mandate;
33.
Encourages States parties to implement fully the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and the two additional 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, and urges
States that have not done so to consider ratifying them;
34.
Decides to examine this question further at its sixty-second session under the
same agenda item;
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