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(d) Encourages all States to prevent and eliminate discriminatory policies that deny
migrant children access to education;
(e) Urges States to ensure that repatriation mechanisms allow for the identification and
special protection of persons in vulnerable situations, including persons with disabilities, and
take into account, in conformity with their international obligations and commitments, the
principle of the best interest of the child and family reunification;
(f) Encourages States that have not yet done so to enact domestic legislation and to take
further effective measures to combat and prosecute international trafficking and smuggling of
migrants, and to protect and assist the victims of violence and trauma in such processes, and also
encourages States parties to implement fully their obligations under the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the two additional Protocols thereto;
4.
Stresses the importance of international, regional and bilateral cooperation in the
protection of the human rights of migrants, and therefore:
(a) Requests all States, international organizations and relevant stakeholders to take into
account in their policies and initiatives on migration issues the global character of the migratory
phenomenon and to give the necessary relevance to international, regional and bilateral
cooperation in this field, with a view to addressing, in a comprehensive manner, its causes and
consequences and granting priority to the protection of human rights of migrants;
(b) Encourages States to consider participating in international and regional dialogues on
migration that include sending and receiving countries, as well as countries of transit, and invites
them to consider negotiating bilateral and regional agreements on migrant workers in the
framework of applicable human rights law and designing and implementing programmes with
States of other regions to protect the rights of migrants;
(c) Calls upon States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to
observe International Migrants Day on 18 December of each year, proclaimed by the
General Assembly, by adopting measures to ensure their protection and to promote greater
harmony between migrants and the societies in which they live;
(d) Notes the first meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, held in
Brussels, in July 2007, and the second meeting of the Global Forum to be held in Manila, in
October 2008, and recognizes the inclusion of a discussion on migration, development and
human rights as a step to address the multidimensional nature of international migration;
(e) Requests Member States, the United Nations system, international organizations,
civil society and all relevant stakeholders, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, to ensure that the
perspective of the human rights of migrants is included among the priority issues in the
ongoing discussions on international migration and development in the United Nations system,
bearing in mind the discussions of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and
Development;
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