A/HRC/31/35 women who have experienced rape and other forms of sexual violence during their transit, with the protection and treatment appropriate to their circumstances and situations, including sexual and reproductive health services encompassing access to rights-based, comprehensive and integrated sexual and reproductive health information and services; (f) Guarantee the human rights of all migrant children in transit and ensure that they are treated as children first and foremost and, in that regard, provide guidance on the operationalization of the principle of the best interests of the child for migrant children in transit; (g) Develop standards on the establishment of firewalls between public service providers and immigration enforcement authorities in order to, inter alia, protect the rights of all migrants in transit to personal security, adequate health care, education and an adequate standard of living; (h) Make targeted efforts to end immigration detention of migrants in transit, by, for example, establishing a presumption against such detention in law; expeditiously ending immigration detention of all children, regardless of status; and implementing non-custodial, community-based alternatives to detention as a matter of priority; (i) Institute multi-stakeholder partnerships and cooperation in order to ensure protection of the human rights of migrants in transit at the local, national, regional and international levels, including to ensure that migrants in transit are able to access reliable, relevant and accurate information on their situation and rights; (j) Improve the collection of data, disaggregated by age and gender, on migrants in transit, including qualitative research on migrants’ experiences of transit, and specific data on the number of migrants killed, injured or victims of crime while attempting to cross maritime, land or air borders. 18

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