A/74/191
I. Introduction
1.
The present report is submitted to the General Assembly by the Special
Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants pursuant to Human Rights Council
resolution 34/21.
II. Activities1
2.
From 22 to 26 April 2019, the Special Rapporteur was the keynote speaker at a
workshop with defenders of the human rights of migrants organized by the Ibero American University in Mexico City and conducted a series of other activities. On
13 May, in Madrid, he gave a lecture on the jurisprudence on migration of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights at University Carlos III; and on 5 June he spoke at
a panel about the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration at the
American Society of International Law, in Washington, D.C.
3.
On 7 June 2019, the Special Rapporteur and the Chair of the Committee on
the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families sent a letter
to the co-facilitators for the intergovernmental consultations and negotiati ons on
the modalities for the International Migration Review Forum, which is to be
convened in 2022, emphasizing the importance of the involvement of international
human rights mechanisms as stakeholders in the global review process and asking the
co-facilitators to consider establishing avenues for the engagement of the
mechanisms.
4.
During the week of 17 June 2019, the Special Rapporteur attended the annual
meeting of the mandate holders of the special procedures of the Human Rights
Council in Geneva. On 20 June, he convened a meeting between relevant mandate
holders of the special procedures and representatives of United Nations entities on
the Executive Committee of the United Nations Network on Migration, at which it
was decided that the mandate holders and the members of the Network should
enhance their cooperation through regular exchanges, including round tables to be
organized during their respective annual meetings.
5.
The Special Rapporteur, in cooperation with United Nations Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), launched his report on the
impact of migration on migrant women and girls ( A/HRC/41/38) at a Human Rights
Council side event on 25 June 2019. The event provided an opportunity for an
exchange of views among different actors, including migrant women.
6.
On 27 June 2019, the Special Rapporteur participated in a panel on “Universal
human rights for migrants and refugees: challenge or chance?” as part of the conference
on “Human rights in times of contestation”, organized by the Centre for Human Rights
Erlangen-Nuremberg, of Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the
City of Nuremburg and Nuremburg Human Rights Centre, Germany. On 3 July he gave
a lecture on current trends and challenges on migration at the University of Bristol,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and on 5 July he held a webinar
with representatives of civil society and other stakeholders from the Asia -Pacific region
about the human rights of migrants in that part of the world.
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For activities between August 2018 and April 2019, see A/HRC/41/38.
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