United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/17/33/Add.2
Distr.: General
23 February 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of
migrants, Jorge Bustamante
Addendum
Mission to Senegal*
Summary
In the present report the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
examines the protection accorded to migrants by the Government of Senegal in the light of
international human rights standards. Based on the information gathered prior to and during
this visit, he presents major trends in the migration phenomenon in the country and key
challenges in the protection of the human rights of migrants. Where relevant he also
highlights a number of practices of cooperation among stakeholders for the promotion and
protection of human rights in the context of the migration phenomenon in the country.
Finally, the Special Rapporteur offers a number of recommendations with a view to
contributing to strengthening ongoing efforts to implement the human rights of migrants in
Senegal and of Senegalese migrants abroad.
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GE.11-11365
The summary of the present report is being circulated in all official languages. The report
itself, contained in the annex to the summary, is being circulated in English and French.