through human rights education and awareness-raising campaigns;
3. Undertake measures, together with their Governments, to protect the economic
rights of migrant workers, in particular, to promote the establishment of fair
tariffs for transferring money earned by migrants from their countries of stay
to their home countries;
4. Continue to urge their Governments, particularly those of receiving States. to
ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of their Families;
5. Continue to urge their Governments to ratify the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air,
supplementing the Convention;
6. Take a more active role in the United Nations treaty body reporting process
and request the respective treaty bodies to take into account issues relating to
migrants in considering States parties’ reports and to engage directly with
national institutions on this subject;
7. Engage in legislative advocacy to facilitate the review of domestic legislation
regarding the rights of migrants in order to ensure its conformity with
international standards and obligations with respect to the protection of human
rights, especially in relation to non-discrimination;
8. Make representations to Governments on legislative proposals, in particular to
ensure that the human rights of migrants are not breached by counter-terrorism
legislation;
9. Encourage the preparation of status reports concerning the rights of migrants
and alleged violations of their rights and include in their annual reports
particular reference to the rights of migrants and actions undertaken by the
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