A/78/180
I. Introduction
1.
The present report is submitted to the General Assembly by the Special
Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, pursuant to
Assembly resolution 76/172 and Human Rights Council resolution 52/20.
II. Activities undertaken by the Special Rapporteur
2.
On 5 April 2023, 1 the Special Rapporteur participated as a speaker at an event
on achieving fair and effective regularization measures in Europe, organized by the
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants.
3.
On 24 April, the Special Rapporteur participated at a conference about the
impact and challenges of the jurisprudence on migration of the Inter-American Court
of Human Rights in Chile, held by the Inter-American Court in Santiago.
4.
On 9 May, the Special Rapporteur participated in a panel discussion on
disappearances of migrants at the first International Congress of Families of Border
Victims in Madrid, organized by Caminando Fronteras.
5.
On 16 May, the Special Rapporteur spoke at the launch of the book Irregular
Migrants and the Right to Health, organized by the Irish Centre for Human Rights at
the University of Galway.
6.
On 9 June, the Special Rapporteur participated at the launch of the 2022 annual
report on statistics on human mobility in Chile, convened by the Jesuit Service for
Migrants.
7.
On 22 June, the Special Rapporteur took part in an interactive dialogue with the
Network of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Institutions in the Americas.
8.
On 26 June, the Special Rapporteur presented his annual report, entitled “How
to expand and diversify regularization mechanisms and programmes to enhance the
protection of the human rights of migrants” (A/HRC/53/26) and country visit reports
to Bangladesh, Belarus and Poland to the fifty-third session of the Human Rights
Council. The Special Rapporteur participated in a side event organized by Franciscans
International about the situation of migrants in Americas.
9.
On 4 July, the Special Rapporteur participated in a side event at the fifty -third
session of the Human Rights Council entitled “From recommendation to act ion:
protecting the rights of women human rights defenders at risk in migration context”,
organized by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women (UN-Women).
10. On 5 July, the Special Rapporteur gave a lecture entitled “Mig ration Trends in
the Americas”, as part of a series of conferences held by University Carlos III of
Madrid and Tirant lo Blanch Publishers.
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For activities prior to April, see the previous report of the Special Rapporteur to the Human
Rights Council (A/HRC/53/26).
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