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powerful platform to amplify positive messages, highlighting migrants’ humanity and
supporting their advocacy, in particular in relation to human rights violations. Through
its campaigns and toolbox on migration narrative change, OHCHR advocates for a
human rights-based approach to migration narratives, emphasizing storytelling, local
impact and a collective approach to counter harmful stereotypes.
B.
Recommendations
119. The Global Compact for Migration provides a common framework that serves
to create societies in which the human rights of migrants are fully realized. It includes
recommendations and actions to support States in achieving its 23 objectives.
120. To foster migrants’ contributions in society, the Special Rapporteur
recommends that Governments:
(a)
Consider transferring responsibility for immigration from security
agencies to dedicated government departments in order to refocus attention on the
benefits that well-managed migration offers, including by:
(i)
Placing emphasis on integration strategies, fostering social cohesion and
upholding the human and labour rights of migrants;
(ii)
Considering the benefits of redirecting even small amounts of ballooning
border security budgets towards integration policies;
(b)
Ensure the protection of the human and labour rights of migrants,
irrespective of their status, including by:
(i)
Committing to respecting, protecting and fulfilling all human rights in the
context of migration;
(ii)
Ensuring fundamental principles and rights at work and the promotion of
decent work in the context of labour migration;
(iii) Implementing minimum requirements for comprehensive labour
migration;
(iv)
Adopting and implementing anti-discrimination legislation;
(v)
Recognizing that xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination,
and policies that allow them to occur, pose significant threats to the human and
labour rights of migrants and run counter to the principle – foundational to the
2030 Agenda – of “leaving no one behind”;
(vi) Developing public policies to tackle xenophobia and utilizing a
whole-of-government strategy with clear objectives, follow-up systems and
inclusive processes;
(vii) Combating debt-financed irregular migration that leads to situations of
exploitation, adopting and implementing anti-trafficking legislation and
improving prosecutions to halt impunity;
(viii) Incorporating and implementing international human rights and labour
standards to guarantee migrant workers’ rights, including:
a.
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families;
b.
Key ILO conventions and protocols;
(ix) Ensuring fair recruitment practices to protect the rights of migrant
workers and boost their contributions to development;
(x)
Removing barriers that prevent migrant workers from exercising their
rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining;
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