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14. Requests States to adopt concrete measures to prevent the violation of the
human rights of migrants while in transit, including in ports and airports and at
borders and migration checkpoints, 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, and to prosecute, in conformity with applicable law, any
act of violation of the human rights of migrants and their families, such as 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;
15. Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to enact domestic
legislation and to take further effective measures to combat international trafficking
in and smuggling of migrants, recognizing that these crimes may endanger the lives
of migrants or subject them to harm, servitude or exploitation, which may include
debt bondage, slavery, sexual exploitation or forced labour, and also encourages
Member States to strengthen international cooperation to combat such trafficking
and smuggling;
16. Encourages States, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations,
to undertake information campaigns aimed at clarifying opportunities, limitations
and rights in the event of migration so as to enable everyone, in particular women,
to make informed decisions and to prevent them from becoming victims of
trafficking and utilizing dangerous means of access that put their lives and physical
integrity at risk;
17. Calls upon States to facilitate family reunification in an expeditious and
effective manner, with due regard to applicable laws, as such reunification has a
positive effect on the integration of migrants;
18. Calls upon all States to protect and promote all human rights of migrant
children, in particular unaccompanied migrant children, ensuring that the best
interests of the children are a primary consideration, underlines the importance of
reuniting them with their parents, when possible, and encourages the relevant
United Nations bodies, within the framework of their respective mandates, to pay
special attention to the conditions of migrant children in all States and, where
necessary, to put forward recommendations for strengthening their protection;
19. Encourages States of origin to promote and protect the human rights of
those families of migrant workers which remain in the countries of origin, paying
particular attention to children and adolescents whose parents have emigrated, and
encourages international organizations to consider supporting States in this regard;
20. Encourages States to consider participating in international and regional
dialogues on migration that include countries of origin and destination, as well as
countries of transit, and invites them to consider negotiating bilateral and regional
agreements on migrant workers within the framework of applicable human rights
law and designing and implementing programmes with States of other regions to
protect the rights of migrants;
21. Requests all Governments to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur
of the Commission on Human Rights on the human rights of migrants in the
performance of the tasks and duties mandated, to furnish all information requested
and to respond appropriately and expeditiously to her urgent appeals and to give
serious consideration to her requests to visit their countries, and welcomes in this
regard the standing invitations extended by some Member States to all special
procedures, including the Special Rapporteur;
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