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the private companies or other entities run such detention facilities, as a duty of care is
owed by that State to those held in such detention. 51
X. Access to those held in detention in the course of migration
proceedings
47.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
International Committee of the Red Cross and other relevant organizations, including
national human rights institutions, national preventive mechanisms and international and
national non-governmental organizations, must be allowed free access to the places of
detention where those detained in the course of migration proceedings are held. 52
XI. Scope of application of the present deliberation
48.
The standards restated in the present deliberation apply to all States in all situations,
and factors such as the influx of large numbers of immigrants regardless of their status,
asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons cannot be used to justify the departure from
these standards. The standards in the present deliberation also apply to migration detention
facilities maintained by a State in the territory of another State, with both States jointly
responsible for the detention. 53
[Adopted on 23 November 2017]
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See, for example, A/HRC/36/37/Add.2, paras. 33–36.
See, for example, E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.3, para. 38; E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.4, para. 52;
A/HRC/16/47/Add.2, paras. 126–128; A/HRC/19/57/Add.3, para. 68 (h); A/HRC/27/48/Add.2,
para. 127; and A/HRC/30/36/Add.3, para. 80.
See, for example, opinion No. 52/2014.
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