E/CN.4/2002/94 page 23 86. In May, the Special Rapporteur visited Chiang Mai, Thailand, for a regional seminar of Asian non-governmental organizations on migrant domestic workers. This was a preparatory meeting for the regional forum being promoted by a coalition of non-governmental organizations in the region in 2002. The Special Rapporteur attaches great importance to this forum, in which States, organizations and migrants will exchange experience in this area with a view to enhancing the quality of life and effective protection of domestic employees. She welcomes the proposal made by Asian non-governmental organizations that annual regional consultations should be organized with her to examine issues of concern to them in connection with the human rights of migrants. 87. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur also followed with interest the process initiated at The Hague by the Netherlands section of the Society for International Development on asylum and migration. This process, involving many individuals, experts, officials and academics working in the area of migration and asylum throughout the world, is aimed at the drawing up of a sort of charter of principles relating to migration and asylum throughout the world. F. Cooperation with other special rapporteurs, treaty bodies, specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations and other competent organizations in the United Nations system 88. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur sent communications through normal channels and/or urgent appeals jointly with a variety of special rapporteurs, in particular the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms. Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Special Rapporteur on torture, Sir Nigel S. Rodley, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Maurice Copithorne. She also held a meeting to exchange views with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in December 2001. The Special Rapporteur had fruitful meetings on the issues falling under her mandate with representatives of IOM and the International Labour Organization (ILO). She also had contacts with UNHCR in connection with the debate on the connection between asylum and migration, and with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the topic of interpersonal violence and migration. She appreciated the meeting between special rapporteurs and members of the treaty monitoring bodies, and hopes to be able to set up machinery for cooperating with them. VI. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Concluding observations 89. The Special Rapporteur hopes that this report will help to enhance the debate on the need to guarantee full and effective protection of the human rights of migrants. She emphasizes the great progress that has been made during the period under review in the development of strategies for the protection of the rights of migrants, and in particular the agreements reached