A/HRC/31/80 putting human rights at the centre of all efforts, including when dealing with the criminal dimensions of trafficking in and the smuggling of persons. 46. In April 2013, OHCHR and the Regional Office for Europe organized a seminar in Brussels on the recommendations that United Nations human rights mechanisms – treaty bodies, special procedures and the universal periodic review – had made to member States of the European Union on the subject of migrants’ rights. At the seminar, participants explored how the recommendations could be applied to improve respect for migrants’ human rights. Representatives of 24 member States of the European Union and of national human rights institutions heard presentations by OHCHR experts, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, the European Commission, UNICEF, IOM, the Council of Europe, and Amnesty International. Meeting under the Chatham House rule, the participants examined, inter alia, policies to prevent the detention of migrant children, the separation of migrant children from their families, migrants’ access to national health insurance schemes, and legal protection of migrant domestic workers. 11. Ethiopia: addressing youth employment and distress migration 47. FAO works in Ethiopia (and also Tunisia) to address the root causes of migration and to promote innovative mechanisms to generate rural youth employment. The project “Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction: fostering rural diversification through enhanced youth employment and better labour mobility” meets the needs of rural young adults and maximizes the development benefits that migrants can bring to their communities of origin. It has used remittances to generate productive activities, explored the potential of sustainable production practices to generate “green” jobs, and facilitated seasonal employment opportunities for young adults. The aim is to identify successful practices and to replicate them in other countries. 12. Africa region: the importance of sound data for policymaking 48. The Population Division and the Statistic Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic Commission for Africa organized two regional workshops: in November 2014, in Addis Ababa, and in September 2015, in Dakar. Their main objective was to strengthen the technical capacity of government officials who produce, analyse and apply migration data from all sources, and their capacity to inform national migration policies and development plans. The workshops were aimed at enabling participating countries to produce national migration data that meet international standards, and increasing understanding of the uses and limitations of migration data for policy purposes, including policies associated with the implementation of the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration2 and Development and the post-2015 development agenda. 49. The workshop in Addis Ababa brought together experts from national statistical offices responsible for official statistics on international migration, relevant ministries or agencies that compile and analyse administrative migration data for policy purposes, and representatives of ministries in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Delegates from Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, Mali, Mauretania, Morocco, the Niger, Senegal and Togo attended the workshop in Dakar. 2 12 General Assembly resolution 68/4.