A/HRC/37/34 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 35/17, in which the Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to submit, as co-Chair of the Global Migration Group Working Group on Migration, Human Rights and Gender Equality, 1 principles and practical guidance on the protection of the human rights of migrants in vulnerable situations, on the basis of existing legal norms, and to report thereon to the Council at its thirty-seventh session. The principles and guidelines are contained in an addendum to the present document (A/HRC/37/34/Add.1). 2. Accordingly, on 23 October 2017, OHCHR addressed a note verbale to Member States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, seeking their views and relevant information on the scope and content of the draft principles and guidelines, with a view to finalizing the document for submission to the Council. Member States were also asked to provide relevant information on promising practices in promoting and protecting the human rights of migrants in vulnerable situations. Written submissions were received from States, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and individual experts.2 3. The principles and guidelines have previously been considered by the Human Rights Council in draft form. They were referred to in reports by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the thirty-third session of the Council (A/HRC/33/67) and the thirty-sixth session of the Council (A/HRC/36/42). The present report follows directly upon the report (A/HRC/34/31) and conference room paper (A/HRC/34/CRP.1) submitted to the Council at its thirty-fourth session, as a progress report on the principles and guidelines. States have acknowledged and called for the continuation of the process of developing principles and guidelines, for example in Council resolution 32/14 and in paragraph 51 of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. 3 4. The Global Migration Group Working Group on Migration, Human Rights and Gender Equality, led by the High Commissioner as co-Chair, has developed the principles and guidelines through a human rights-based, multi-stakeholder, expert process, which was open to the involvement of all relevant actors. This initiative reflects the primary stated purpose of the Global Migration Group, which, according to its terms of reference, is “to promote the wider application of all relevant international and regional instruments and norms relating to migration” and “to encourage the adoption of more coherent, comprehensive approaches to the issue of international migration.”4 5. In view of considerations of space, the present report contains an introduction as well as a non-exhaustive glossary of key terms. The addendum to the present report contains 20 principles, along with associated guidelines with annotations. The guidelines are designed to provide guidance derived from international best practice to States and 1 2 3 4 2 The Working Group on Migration, Human Rights and Gender Equality is composed of the following bodies: International Labour Organization (ILO); International Organization for Migration (IOM); Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); United Nations University; and World Health Organization (WHO). The group is co-chaired by OHCHR and UN-Women. In addition to submissions from a large number of non-governmental organizations and individual experts, submissions were received from the European Union and the following States: Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Mauritius, Philippines, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The submissions can be found on the migration page of the OHCHR website, at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Migration/Pages/VulnerableSituations.aspx. General Assembly resolution 71/1, outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants. See www.globalmigrationgroup.org/system/files/uploads/documents/Final_GMG_Terms_of_ Reference_prioritized.pdf.