A/HRC/4/91 page 23 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,