A/64/213 I. Introduction 1. The present report has been submitted to the General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge Bustamante, pursuant to Assembly resolution 63/184, entitled “Protection of Migrants”, and Human Rights Council resolution 8/10, entitled “Human rights of migrants: mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants”. 2. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur provides a summary of his activities carried out between January 2008 and June 2009 and highlights issues related to the protection of children in the context of migration, a number of illustrative good practices and some of the major challenges encountered in the protection of the human rights of migrants. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur 3. The Special Rapporteur carries out his activities in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 8/10. Human Rights Council resolutions 9/5 and S-10/1 and Assembly resolutions 62/156 and 63/184 provide further thematic guidance for the activities of the Special Rapporteur. 4. During the reporting period, the Special Rapporteur participated in a number of events, as set out below: (a) On 6 March 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated in an event on the theme “Challenges of irregular migration”, organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Geneva Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in parallel with the seventh session of the Human Rights Council; (b) From 1 to 3 June 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated in a training programme on international and regional human rights systems organized in Sweden by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights; (c) From 23 to 27 June 2008, the Special Rapporteur attended the fifteenth meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva, and participated in the drafting of the report submitted to the Council at its tenth session (A/HRC/10/24). He also participated in a seminar on the theme “Working with the United Nations special procedures system to fight torture and other forms of ill-treatment by acting on their economic, social and cultural root causes”, organized by the World Organization Against Torture in Geneva; (d) From 30 July to 2 August 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated in a workshop on the theme “Immigration and integration”, organized by the University of Jaén, Spain; (e) From 24 to 26 August 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated in the regional conference for Africa, held in Abuja, as part of the preparations for the Durban Review Conference, held in Geneva in April 2009; (f) From 11 to 13 September 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated in the third World Social Forum on Migration, held in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain; 09-43777 3