A/67/299 I. Introduction 1. The present report is the first submitted to the General Assembly by the current Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. The Special Rapporteur was invited to present his report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session in resolution 66/172. 2. The activities of the Special Rapporteur are carried out in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/44, by which the mandate was first established. Since then, the mandate of the Special Rapporteur has been extended by Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2002/62 and 2005/47 and Human Rights Council resolutions 8/10 and 17/12, each time for a period of three years. At its seventeenth session, the Human Rights Council appointed François Crépeau (Canada) as the new Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, and he assumed his functions on 1 August 2011. II. Activities 3. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur participated in a number of conferences and forums directly related to his mandate. 4. From 8 to 10 November 2011, in Djibouti, the Special Rapporteur participated in an Expert Meeting on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Distress at Sea, organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 5. From 29 November to 2 December 2011, he attended the Global Forum on Migration and Development Civil Society Days and relevant side events in Geneva. He also attended the Tenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration and Development in New York in February 2012. 6. On 22 and 23 March 2012, he participated in the Expert Consultation of Human Rights at International Borders, organized in Geneva by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). 7. The Special Rapporteur also participated in the twenty-first session of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna from 23 to 27 April 2012 during the thematic discussion on violence against migrants, migrant workers and their families. 8. The Special Rapporteur has also been collaborating with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the preparation of a joint document which will be presented at the Day of General Discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the rights of all children in the context of international migration, and he will participate in the Day of General Discussion on 28 September 2012. 9. The Special Rapporteur has also been following the preparations for the 2012 Global Forum on Migration and Development, which he will attend in Mauritius in November 2012. He also welcomes the next High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, which will be the second such dialogue to be convened by the General Assembly, in New York in September 2013. The Special Rapporteur provided input to the contribution of the United Nations system to the High-level Dialogue, stressing the importance of paying sufficient attention to the human rights 12-46071 3