A/RES/73/195
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
(d) Review relevant existing labour laws and work conditions to identify and
effectively address workplace-related vulnerabilities and abuses of migrant workers
at all skills levels, including domestic workers, and those working in the informal
economy, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, particularly the private sector;
(e) Account for migrant children in national child protection systems by
establishing robust procedures for the protection of migrant children in relevant
legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings and decisions, as well as in all
migration policies and programmes that impact children, including consular
protection policies and services, as well as cross-border cooperation frameworks, in
order to ensure that the best interests of the child are appropriately integrated,
consistently interpreted and applied in coordination and cooperation with child
protection authorities;
(f) Protect unaccompanied and separated children at all stages of migration
through the establishment of specialized procedures for their identification, referral,
care and family reunification, and provide access to health -care services, including
mental health, education, legal assistance and the right to be heard in administrative
and judicial proceedings, including by swiftly appointing a competent and impartial
legal guardian, as essential means to address their particular vulnerabilities and
discrimination, protect them from all forms of violence and provide access to
sustainable solutions that are in their best interests;
(g) Ensure that migrants have access to public or affordable independent legal
assistance and representation in legal proceedings that affect them, including during
any related judicial or administrative hearing, in order to safeguard that all migrants,
everywhere, are recognized as persons before the law and that the delivery of justice
is impartial and non-discriminatory;
(h) Develop accessible and expedient procedures that facilitate transitions
from one status to another and inform migrants of their rights and obligations, so as
to prevent migrants from falling into an irregular status in the country of destination,
to reduce precariousness of status and related vulnerabilities, as well as to enable
individual status assessments for migrants, including for those who have fallen out of
regular status, without fear of arbitrary expulsion;
(i) Build on existing practices to facilitate access for migrants in an irregular
status to an individual assessment that may lead to regular status, on a case-by-case
basis and with clear and transparent criteria, especially in cases where children, youth
and families are involved, as an option for reducing vulnerabilities, as well as for
States to ascertain better knowledge of the resident pop ulation;
(j) Apply specific support measures to ensure that migrants caught up in
situations of crisis in countries of transit and destination have access to consular
protection and humanitarian assistance, including by facilitating cross -border and
broader international cooperation, as well as by taking migrant populations into
account in crisis preparedness, emergency response and post -crisis action;
(k) Involve local authorities and relevant stakeholders in the identification,
referral and assistance of migrants in a situation of vulnerability, including through
agreements with national protection bodies, legal aid and service providers, as well
as the engagement of mobile response teams, where they exist;
(l) Develop national policies and programmes to improve na tional responses
that address the needs of migrants in situations of vulnerability, including by taking
into consideration relevant recommendations of the Global Migration Group ’s
Principles and Guidelines, Supported by Practical Guidance, on the Human Rig hts
Protection of Migrants in Vulnerable Situations.
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