A/HRC/38/41/Add.1 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on his mission to Nepal from 29 January to 5 February 2018* Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. General background: migration from Nepal .................................................................................. 3 III. Normative and institutional framework for the protection of the human rights of migrants ......... 4 A. International legal framework ............................................................................................... 4 B. Regional consultative processes ........................................................................................... 4 C. National legal and institutional framework ........................................................................... 5 Recruitment process ...................................................................................................................... 7 A. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 7 B. Role and regulation of recruitment agencies and sub-agents ................................................ 7 C. Recruitment fees ................................................................................................................... 8 D. Pre-departure training and information ................................................................................. 9 E. Consular assistance ............................................................................................................... 9 F. Return and reintegration ....................................................................................................... 10 G. Access to an effective remedy .............................................................................................. 11 H. Relationship with destination States ..................................................................................... 12 V. Migrant women ............................................................................................................................. 13 VI. Migration to India ......................................................................................................................... 14 VII. Irregular migration ........................................................................................................................ 14 VIII. Cross-cutting concerns .................................................................................................................. 15 A. Migration to Nepal ................................................................................................................ 15 B. Access to citizenship ............................................................................................................. 16 C. Internal migration ................................................................................................................. 16 Conclusions and recommendation ................................................................................................. 16 A. Recommendations to the Government of Nepal ................................................................... 17 B. Recommendations to destination States ................................................................................ 20 C. Recommendations to the private sector ................................................................................ 20 IV. IX. * Circulated in the language of submission only. 2