A/59/377 I. Introduction 1. The present report is the third to be submitted to the General Assembly by Gabriela Rodríguez Pizarro, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the human rights of migrants, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 58/190 and Commission resolution 2004/53. 2. This report covers the activities carried out during the period 1 August 2003 to 30 August 2004. It underscores certain issues of concern which, in the Special Rapporteur’s view, require urgent attention. Owing to spatial limitations and in order to avoid needless duplication, reference will be made where necessary to previous reports on the issue where the questions raised are dealt with at length. The report also describes significant developments in relation to the protection of the human rights of migrants that have occurred during the period under review. II. Mandate 3. The activities of the Special Rapporteur are carried out in accordance with the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/44, by which the Commission established the mechanism and defined its functions. At its fifty-eighth session the Commission decided, by its resolution 2002/62, to extend the Special Rapporteur’s mandate by a further three years. 4. The international legal framework for the Special Rapporteur’s work is set out in her second report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-seventh session (E/CN.4/2001/83 and Add.1). The methods of work adopted by the Special Rapporteur were described in her first report to the General Assembly (A/57/292). III. Activities A. Summary of activities 5. The report submitted by the Special Rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixtieth session (E/CN.4/2004/76 and Add.1-4) contains a summary of the meetings and activities in which the Special Rapporteur participated from July to November 2003. During the period not covered by that report, the Special Rapporteur took part in the following events: (a) On 10 and 11 November 2003, she spoke at a seminar entitled “Migration management in an international, European and national perspective”, organized in Oslo by the Directorate of Immigration; (b) On 20 and 21 January 2004 she participated in an expert meeting in Geneva, organized by the Global Commission on International Migration; (c) On 22 and 23 January, she attended a colloquium entitled “Migration and the new international division of labour”, organized by the Graduate Institute of Development Studies of the University of Geneva; (d) From 26 to 30 January, she participated in a regional workshop on human rights and trafficking in persons, organized in Costa Rica by Global Rights: Partners for Justice. The Special Rapporteur provided information on the provisions of the 4