A/HRC/31/80 proved particularly useful for identifying relevant areas of cooperation since 2014, when migration was mainstreamed within the Office’s six principal thematic strategies. 19. As a founding member of the Global Migration Group and Co-Chair of its Working Group on Migration, Human Rights and Gender, OHCHR has sought to inject a human rights perspective into national, regional and global discussions on migration. The High Commissioner has personally highlighted the importance of migration and the protection of migrants’ rights in a number of public statements and keynote speeches, in addition to publishing joint statements on the plight of migrants in the Mediterranean and South-East Asia with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Director-General of IOM and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development (the “quartet”). OHCHR will work closely with Global Migration Group and quartet partners to ensure that the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on large-scale movements of refugees and migrants, to be organized by the Secretary-General at the seventy-first session of the Assembly, will be human rights-based and migrantcentred. III. National and regional technical cooperation experiences to promote and protect the rights of all migrants, including women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities A. Compliance of national legislation, policies, programmes and institutions, including the judiciary and national human rights institutions, with international human rights standards 20. At the global level, OHCHR launched its Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders during the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, and subsequently in Brussels, Geneva and other regional settings. The Principles address capacity-building, rescue and interception, assistance, screening, identification and referral, as well as conditions of detention and removal, and have been broadly welcomed by a wide range of stakeholders. Member States are already applying the Principles: for example, in Switzerland, the State Secretariat on Migration refers to them in its internal guidance. 21. The Working Group on Human Rights and Gender of the Global Migration Group (which OHCHR co-chairs with UN-Women) has agreed to develop practical guidance drawn from international human rights law and related standards to ensure that responses to “mixed migration flows” are human rights-based. 22. In June 2015, OHCHR held an expert meeting on the theme, “Human rights and migrant smuggling: exploring issues and challenges”, which convened experts from United Nations agencies, Member States, academia and civil society to discuss smuggling from a human rights perspective. 23. In its resolution 29/2, the Human Rights Council requested OHCHR to submit to the Council before its thirty-first session a study on the situation of migrants in transit, in consultation with States and other stakeholders. The report will address several of the concerns raised by the Council in resolution 29/2, notably the risks faced by women migrants and children, in particular unaccompanied and separated children. 24. OHCHR provides substantive technical assistance on human rights to the Global Forum on Migration and Development for its annual meeting , participating in and informing government teams, drafting background documentation and contributing to 7

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