A/72/173 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. Activities 2. The Special Rapporteur participated as a panellist in the high -level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants, held in New York on 19 September 2016. 3. The Special Rapporteur conducted a visit to Australia from 1 to 18 Novem ber 2016. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Australia develop and implement a human rights-based approach to migration and border management, ensuring that the rights of migrants, including undocumented migrants, are always given priority. 4. The Special Rapporteur, in collaboration with the respective national human rights institutions, organized workshops on access to justice for migrants in Senegal on 5 and 6 December and in Morocco on 8 and 9 December 2016. 5. On 31 March 2017, the Special Rapporteur organized a consultation in Geneva with civil society organizations and United Nations agencies to review the outcome of the high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants and discuss ways to engage with the two-year process that will result in the adoption of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in 2018. 6. On 8 and 9 May 2017, the Special Rapporteur was invited to the first thematic informal consultation of the global compact on migration on the theme “Human rights of all migrants, social inclusion, cohesion, and all forms of discrimination, including racism, xenophobia and intolerance” as the thematic expert. On 19 and 20 June 2017, he also participated in the third consultation on the theme “International cooperation and governance of migration in all its dimensions including at borders, on transit, entry, return, readmission, integration and reintegration”. 7. In June 2017, the Special Rapporteur submitted his final thematic report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/35/25). The present report builds on that report. III. 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility A. Introduction 8. On 19 September 2016, the General Assembly held a high -level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants and adopted resolution 71/1 on the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. The Declaration establishes a two-year process leading to an international conference in 2018 at which two global compacts, one on refugees and the other for safe, orderly and regular migration, will be presented for adoption. The Special Rapporteur s ees the adoption of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration not as the end of the process, but as the beginning. As part of the global compact, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to go beyond the Declaration and impulsive reactions on the basis of what they perceive to be the current problems and to develop a human rights- and evidence-based governance framework for international migration and mobility. 4/26 17-12223