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working towards more inclusive societies that respect and promote social and
cultural diversity. Such targets should focus on:
(a) Monitoring and ending inequalities and discrimination against migrants,
irrespective of their status, in laws, policies and practices;
(b) Ensuring that migrants are protected against racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and have access to means of
recourse and redress;
(c) Ensuring the effective protection of the human and labour rights of
migrants, including equal opportunity and treatment in employment, in compliance
with international human rights and labour standards.
46. To ensure equality of economic opportunities for all, including marginalized
groups, including migrants, targets should be developed on the following specific
issues:
(a) Adopting approaches that reduce the precariousness of migrants, in
particular by avoiding the securitization of migration policies and the
externalization of border controls;
(b) Implementing policies that effectively sanction employers who exploit
migrants and increasing the share of migrants who benefit from cross -border
recognition of skills and qualifications and of portability of social security benefits;
(c) Ensuring development opportunities for all, including secure rights to
own land, property and other productive resources and to access to financial
services.
47.
Indicators under this goal could include:
(a) Proportion of migrant children and children of migrants under 5 years of
age whose birth is registered with a competent civil authority;
(b) Establishing a policy-specific time frame for the elimination of
discrimination against all migrants in laws, policies and practices;
(c) Proportion of migrants with affordable and effective access to justice
through independent and competent judicial and quasi-judicial institutions, such as
the court system, administrative tribunals, national human rights institutions and
other bodies whose decisions may affect their rights;
(d) Proportion of migrants excluded from adequate, affordable and
accessible public services; 14
(e) Proportion of migrants able to gain access to financial services, including
opening bank accounts and securing mortgages.
48. Inequalities cannot be properly tackled without better and more accurate data
collection, which is essential to identifying and monitoring inequalities.
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See resolutions 68/179, para. 3 (a), resolution 66/288, annex, para. 43, and resolution 68/4, para. 1.
See also the Global Migration Group position document on including migrants in the post-2015
United Nations development agenda, available from www.globalmigrationgroup.org/sites/default/
files/uploads/GMG-Working-Groups-and-Task-Forces/Working-Group-on-Human-Rights-Genderand-Migration/GMG-WG-HR-position-document.pdf.
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