A/HRC/56/54 D. Community-driven initiatives that support and foster migrant contributions 99. Diaspora communities are pivotal for migrant integration, offering cultural insights, social networking and linguistic aid, while providing assistance in employment, housing and legal processes. They provide educational support and champion migrants’ rights, aiding adaptation and bringing valuable skills and perspectives. Local media outlets that broadcast in the native languages of migrants deliver news from origin and host countries, supporting daily life and civic participation. They help migrants to maintain cultural connections and are crucial for information access during emergencies and economic integration through job listings. 100. Trade unions innovate to support migrant workers. In Belgium, the Confederation of Christian Trade Unions educates migrants on their rights. The Malaysian Trades Union Congress assisted 500 migrants in joining the Electronics Union in Penang. The central union of Mozambique and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions now include migrants. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Trade Union Council strives for portable union rights across borders. In Belgium and Sweden, unions now include undocumented migrants and support their rights.108 101. Civil society, NGOs, migrant groups and the private sector play crucial roles in migrant integration and cultural exchange.109 Australia celebrates migrant entrepreneurship through the community-led Ethnic Business Awards, sharing inspiring success stories.110 In Brazil, partnerships such as the Companies with Refugees Forum boost refugee employment. In Greece, the Multaka project involves refugees in intercultural museum tours. In Cabo Verde, immigrant associations engage in policymaking and provide vocational training. Serbian civil society actors run integration workshops, and Lithuanian NGOs offer personalized assistance plans for refugee integration. VII. Supporting an evidence-based narrative on migration that reflects migrants’ contributions to society 102. Efforts to promote an evidence-based narrative about migration are crucial for acknowledging and maximizing migrants’ contributions to society. OHCHR actively challenges xenophobia and anti-migrant discourse. In that regard, its campaigns are aimed at redirecting the narrative towards human rights, and it has formulated seven key elements on building human rights-based narratives on migrants and migration.111 103. Personal testimonies are vital to advocacy networks and campaigns to help audiences to connect and empathize with affected people. Messages that foreground values such as family, freedom and fairness are more likely to resonate with those who are open to changing their minds, as are messages that are “two parts solution, one part problem” or that seize the moral high ground rather than referring to pragmatics and cost savings. 112 104. Social media enables the amplification of positive messages about migrants and is also used by migrants experiencing human rights violations, for example, in detention, to advocate for their rights and raise awareness of abuses, fostering advocacy networks internationally.113 108 109 110 111 112 113 GE.24-07075 See ILO, Migrant Workers’ Rights to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining. Submissions by Brazil, Cabo Verde, Greece and Serbia. See https://www.ethnicbusinessawards.com/. See OHCHR, “Seven key elements on building human rights-based narratives on migrants and migration” (2020). See Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, “Words that work: making the best case for people seeking asylum”, 2017. See Cecilia Cannon and Shaminda Kanapathi, “Using new media platforms for human rights advocacy in real-time: people seeking asylum in Nauru and Papua New Guinea”, in Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, McAuliffe, ed. 17