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assess health protocols and living and working conditions of migrants, including
shelters, dormitories, detention and reception centres, workplaces, public
transportation and other settings where migrants and their families wo rk and
live; to guarantee the availability and accessibility of medical services, protective
materials, water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and opportunities for physical
activities at these places; and to make accessible protocols and relevant
information in the above settings, and in a language they understand;
(k) To implement mechanisms to review the use of immigration detention,
with a view to reducing its use to the lowest possible level; and immediately to
release families with children and unaccompanied or separated children from
immigration detention facilities to non-custodial and community-based
alternatives with full access to rights and services, including health care;
(l) To support the extension of work and residence visas and work and
residence permits, and promote the regulation of undocumented migrants or
those in an irregular situation, privileging long-term and permanent solutions,
with a view to ensuring public health, sustainable socioeconomic integration and
inclusive recovery;
(m) To address the stigma associated with returning migrants and ensure
their access to health care and other essential services and support for migrants
returning to countries and communities of origin; and to promote the portability
of social protection and skills recognition and development, with a view to
ensuring sustainable reintegration and inclusion in national responses and
recovery plans to the pandemic;
(n) To investigate, prosecute and provide effective remedies to cases of
racism, discrimination and xenophobia affecting migrant individuals and
communities, including on social media and in the public debate; to promote
campaigns and narratives addressing stigma and discrimination grounded in
migration status and avoid rhetoric and terminology that stigmatize and
reinforce harmful narratives against migrants that may result in the exclusion of
migrants and those in irregular situation from health care and other essential
services; and to keep and publish updated data relating to the efforts carried out
in this area;
(o) To include migrants, regardless of their nationality and migration
status, in socioeconomic recovery and response plans and policies, ensuring that
they are guided by international human rights principles and frameworks, such
as the Joint Guidance Note on the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the
Human Rights of Migrants by the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Special
Rapporteur himself, and coordinated with local authorities, civil society
organizations and other relevant actors;
(p) To promote civic space and support all stakeholders providing
assistance to migrants, including migrant associations, and humanitarian and
civil society organizations, increasing cooperation and coordination with them
and supporting their continuity of services and the assistance they provide;
(q) To promote international cooperation and solidarity measures, with a
view to ensuring support to those countries that have fewer resources to address
the pandemic and its consequences, including their equitable access to vaccines.
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