A/HRC/62/35 connection, and guarantee access to effective remedies with automatic suspensive effect, including where the safe third country concept is applied; (d) Guarantee that the use, transfer and deployment of digital and surveillance technologies comply with international human rights law, including the right to privacy and data protection standards and principles, ensuring transparency and independent oversight, and suspending the use of technologies where risks cannot be effectively mitigated, and consider establishing standards for the use of technology in migration governance, including the implementation of United Nations principles and guidelines on human rights-based digital border governance; (e) Ensure that all measures respect the rights of the child, with the best interests of the child as a primary consideration, by explicitly exempting children from externalization measures, prohibiting immigration detention, ensuring individualized assessments with full procedural safeguards, stopping and preventing any violence against children, reinforcing child protection systems, avoiding any family separation, and refraining from removing children where there is a real risk of irreparable harm; (f) Ensure that all measures are gender-responsive, by systematically identifying and preventing gender-based risks, including violence, exploitation and discrimination, guaranteeing access to gender-sensitive and trauma-informed procedures and services, refraining from removal where there is a real risk of gender-based violence or irreparable harm, and ensuring that detention and reception conditions respect the dignity, safety and specific needs of women, girls and persons with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics; (g) Prohibit racial profiling and discriminatory enforcement practices and ensure that all measures comply with human rights norms, and adopt an intersectional approach that prevents and addresses compounded discrimination against racialized groups; (h) Ensure transparency in migration cooperation, including by making agreements and their implementation frameworks publicly available and subject to appropriate parliamentary and public oversight; (i) As part of their human rights due diligence obligations, conduct comprehensive gender-sensitive human rights impact assessments, on an ex ante and an ongoing basis, of any cooperation, with specific attention to intersecting forms of exclusion affecting migrants, identifying human rights risks and risk mitigation strategies, and make the results publicly available and act upon them; (j) Ensure that private companies involved in migration cooperation exercise human rights due diligence in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, including by identifying, preventing and mitigating adverse impacts, establish accountability frameworks, enable access to effective remedy for victims, and suspend or terminate cooperation where companies contribute to or are linked to abuses; (k) Ensure independent, effective, gender-responsive and child-sensitive human rights monitoring of all measures preventing arrivals, outsourcing asylum processing and removing migrants to third States, ensuring an adequate mandate, access and resources, and meaningful follow-up to the findings of the monitoring; (l) Guarantee access to independent, accessible and effective complaint mechanisms to safely and confidentially report violations and abuse in the context of migration cooperation measures, guaranteeing access from abroad, protecting complainants, and promptly and effectively investigating well-founded allegations and ensuring that those responsible are brought to justice, and that victims and their relatives have access to effective remedies, including reparation; GE.26-06322 19

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