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Rights of the child
mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well managed migration policies;
(d) Expresses serious concern about the situation of vulnerability and risk
faced by migrants in transit and destination countries, in particular migrant children,
including adolescents, who are unaccompanied or separated from their families, who
are forced to flee or decide to leave their homelands owing to multip le causes, and
calls upon States of origin, transit and destination to work together to find effective
and sustainable solutions, including within a framework of solidarity and regional
and international cooperation;
(e) Emphasizes the need for reliable statistical data disaggregated by sex,
age and migratory status on international migration, including on migrant children,
and in that regard calls upon the United Nations system and other relevant
international organizations and multilateral institutions to enhance their cooperation
in the development of methodologies for the collection and processing of statistical
data on international migration and the situation of migrant children in countries of
origin, transit and destination and to assist Member States in their capacity-building
efforts in this regard;
(f) Recognizes all efforts made by Governments, all relevant bodies,
agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, other relevant
intergovernmental, regional and subregional organizations, including the
International Organization for Migration and other organizations of the Global
Migration Group, and non-governmental stakeholders, including the private sector,
in addressing international migration and development for the benefit of bot h
migrants and societies, and bearing this goal in mind emphasizes the need to
strengthen partnerships among all relevant stakeholders;
(g) Requests all States, international and national organizations and relevant
stakeholders to take into account in their policies and initiatives on migration issues
the global character of the migratory phenomenon and to give due consideration to
international, regional and bilateral cooperation in this field, including by
undertaking dialogues on migration that include countries of origin, transit and
destination, as well as civil society, including migrants, with a view to addressing,
in a comprehensive manner, inter alia, its causes and consequences and the
challenge of unaccompanied children and irregular migration, granting priority to
the protection of the human rights of migrants;
IV
Follow-up
88. Recalls its resolution 69/157 of 18 December 2014, in which it invited
the Secretary-General to commission an in-depth global study on children deprived
of liberty, to be funded through voluntary contributions, in this regard encourages
Member States and United Nations agencies, funds, programmes and offices, as well
as other relevant stakeholders, to support the elaboratio n of the study, and invites
the designated independent expert who will lead the study to update Member States
on the progress made and to submit a final report to the General Assembly at its
seventy-third session;
89.
Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-second session a report on the rights of the child containing information on
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