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Policy and action oriented approach to implementation
38.
NHRIs should launch public campaigns in order to counteract stereotypes of migrants
and promote the knowledge and respect of their rights. In relation to the media, NHRIs should
promote an understanding of migrants and migrant issues, including the positive impact of
migration and diversity, and inform about the danger related to the risk of exploitation,
39.
NHRIs should assist in developing guidelines and/or training for relevant State
authorities and officials such as police, border guards, immigration officials and others involved
in the detection, detention, reception and processing of migrants, and in the inspection of
immigration detention centres.
40.
NHRIs should encourage the provision of practical and legal assistance to migrants upon
arrival, including by facilitating the establishment of offices in border towns. NHRIs should
monitor expulsion procedures,
41.
NHRIs should focus as much on the economic, social and cultural rights of migrants as
on their civil and political rights. NHRIs should encourage Governments to adopt policies that
regularize the status of migrants and assure their access to social services, including education
and health services. They should also help to ensure that the labour rights of migrants, including
decent work and full social protection, are protected,
42.
Specifically, NHRIs should contribute to creating, in reception countries, the conditions
for family reunification of migrant workers and the free education of the children of migrants in
accordance with international human rights standards. In addition, NHRIs should pressure States
to adopt emergency measures to guarantee the provision of basic services to indigenous
communities and other vulnerable groups that have a lack or no access to such services,
43.
NHRIs should include refugees and asylum-seekers among the groups requiring special
attention. In particular, NHRIs should take an active role in implementing the goals, activities
and programmes of the international Protection Agenda promoted by UNHCR and ensure its
inclusion in the respective regional agendas of work and/or action plans,
44.
NHRIs should conduct and encourage research on the real situation of indigenous and
minority migrants and other migrants. This may include the development of disaggregated data,
by sex and ethnic groups, and accurate statistics and policy suggestions to reflect diversity and
enable the participation of minority groups, internally displaced persons and indigenous
communities in policy and consultative processes on issues affecting them to ensure that their
needs are better met.
Adopted in Santa Cruz
26 October 2006
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