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18.
NHRIs shall engage in cross-country cooperation and use their networks to communicate
on migration issues - between neighbouring countries and sending, transit and receiving States.
NHRIs would also benefit from strategic partnerships with civil society organizations to
implement their advocacy, research, public education, media campaigns and ongoing monitoring
and investigation activities,
In order to implement this declaration, NHRIs hereby agree:
19.
To establish a Working Group through the ICC to define a concrete plan of action for
implementation of this Declaration at the nineteenth session of the ICC and call on regional
groups to do the same,
20.
To develop and implement within their institutions a strategy to address the problematics
of migration,
21.
To develop plans of action among NHRIs of relevant sending, transit and receiving States
in cooperation with partners including civil society,
22.
To request OHCHR to prepare a study which could also include NHRIs best practices in
relation to migration,
23.
To encourage their States to support the Migrant Workers’ Committee and the Special
Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and call for the ratification, and its implementation,
of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families and report back to the next session of the ICC on concrete measures
taken in this regard.
General Guidelines
The following are a summation of the main areas whereby NHRIs may intervene to
promote and protect the rights of migrants:
Operational provisions
Ratification
24.
NHRIs should promote the ratification of the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families through appropriate means
including campaigns, policy advice, conferences and publications on the benefits and the
background of the Convention,
25.
Regarding the large number of Governments which are reluctant to ratify the Convention,
NHRIs should analyse the reasons behind non-ratification including misconceptions and other
obstacles, and work on argumentation catalogues to counter these concerns,
26.
In an effort to advocate for ratification of the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, NHRIs could benefit from
partnership with civil society organizations,
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