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accommodation facilities and relocating unaccompanied migrant children from Greece and
reuniting them with family members in Switzerland.
105. In the framework of its bilateral and multilateral policies, it reported efforts to prevent
disappearances and to improve the search for and identification of missing migrants,
including the establishment of mechanisms for international cooperation and to develop
common standards in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross and
the International Commission on Missing Persons.
Y.
Turkey
106. The Government provided information on measures in place to protect the rights of
victims of trafficking and persons under temporary protection, including through the
provision of health care, counselling and psychosocial support, access to temporary residence
permits and identity cards to facilitate social inclusion, access to education, work permits and
social protection.
107. The Government reported on developments with regard to protecting the rights of
migrants and the Global Compact for Migration and reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring
the principle of non-refoulement, as well as the principle of non-discrimination. The
Government emphasized the importance of countering anti-migrant rhetoric and the need to
end racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and the stigmatization of all migrants.
108. The identification of missing migrants was addressed by specialized sub-units of the
national police forces.
Z.
European Union
109. The European Union reported that protecting and upholding human rights was an
essential component of its migration policies, and that it was engaged in protecting and
promoting those rights through existing policies and legislative frameworks, as well as by
funding programmes and projects.
110. European Union laws and policies and the laws and policies of its member States
prioritized protecting all migrant children at all stages of migration. The European Union
considered the gender-specific effects of migration in its policymaking. It had engaged in
international cooperation to ensure the specific protection of migrant children and
adolescents; migrant women and girls; and internally displaced and forcibly displaced
persons.
111. The need to ensure the protection of the human rights of migrants in the context of the
COVID-19 pandemic, with a special emphasis on the right to health and on protection against
racism and xenophobia, was highlighted.
112. The European Union emphasized the need for international, regional and bilateral
cooperation, including in the framework of the United Nations, noting that migration and
forced displacement required global, cooperative alliances involving countries of origin,
transit and destination and international organizations.
V. Conclusions and recommendations
A.
Conclusions
113. Migration governance requires a strong human rights-based approach that
upholds the commitment to leave no one behind. Respect for and protection and
fulfilment of migrants’ human rights should be at the core of migration-related laws
and policies at the national, regional and international levels, and employing a wholeof-government and whole-of-society approach is envisaged to lead to better outcomes
for all.
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