A/HRC/31/80 55. On 16 December 2014, Madagascar, encouraged by intensive advocacy, training and sensitization by OHCHR, IOM, UNICEF, UNFPA and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), adopted a law against human trafficking. This landmark law protects victims of trafficking, punishes perpetrators and affirms the State’s responsibility to protect the rights of victims to return to their country and to compensation. At the Government’s request, OHCHR advised on State’s compliance with international standards and principles and, as Chair of the Human Rights and Gender Working Group of the United Nations country team, coordinated technical support for the Government when it was drafting a national plan of action against human trafficking, which was adopted and validated in March 2015. At the request of the Ministry of Population, Social Protection and the Promotion of Women, OHCHR is assisting the Government in drafting a national plan of action for the protection of minorities, including migrants and persons with disabilities. C. 1. Compliance of national legislation, policies and programmes and institutions with international human rights standards to combat discrimination, particularly against women Mexico and Guatemala: advancing protection of the human and labour rights of migrant workers 56. Since 2013, ILO has assisted the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social) of Mexico and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (Ministerio de Trabajo y Prevision Social) of Guatemala to develop and implement a bilateral labour migration agreement. The purpose of the agreement is to promote decent, productive jobs and to protect the labour rights of temporary migrant workers by, inter alia, strengthening public employment services and creating a binational system for licensing and monitoring private employment and recruitment agencies. ILO is technically assisting both countries to create a binational technical working group and a new temporary migrant worker programme, and to organize information campaigns on the protection of migrant workers’ rights during recruitment and placement processes. 2. Europe: protection of the rights of unaccompanied migrant children 57. In 2011, the Regional Office for Europe held a judicial colloquium on the implementation of article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (best interests of the child) in procedures involving migrant children, in particular unaccompanied or separated children. Organized in cooperation with UNICEF and with the support of UNHCR, Save the Children, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, the Supreme Court of Catalonia and the Office of the Ombudsman (Spain), the colloquium brought together judges from national and regional courts in Europe to share experiences and views on how the principle of best interests can be fully respected and implemented. It considered a range of critical issues, including age determination proceedings, decisions on durable and long-term solutions for such children, access to basic social services, and the procedural safeguards necessary to ensure that children’s rights are respected when decisions that may have a critical effect their future are made. The results of the colloquium were included in publications that informed efforts to implement the European Commission Action Plan on Unaccompanied Minors (2010-2014) at European Union and national levels. 58. In 2012, the Regional Office for Europe published the findings made at the colloquium. Judicial Implementation of Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Europe: the case of migrant children, including unaccompanied children was made public during a plenary session of the Committee on Civil Liberties of the European Parliament, which is responsible for discussing human rights issues in the European Union. 14