A/65/222 I. Introduction 1. The present report is being submitted to the General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge Bustamante, pursuant to Assembly resolution 64/166 and Human Rights Council resolution 8/10. The Special Rapporteur reports on his activities in fulfilment of his mandate between June 2009 and July 2010. He also highlights issues related to the impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights, presents an illustrative number of good practices and promising policies and makes recommendations to Member States and other stakeholders. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur 2. The Special Rapporteur carries out his activities in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 8/10. Further thematic guidance for the activities of his office is provided by Human Rights Council resolutions 9/5 and S-10/1 and General Assembly resolutions 62/156, 63/184 and 64/166. 3. During the reporting period, the Special Rapporteur participated in the sixteenth and seventeenth annual meetings of special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, held from 29 June to 3 July 2009 and from 28 June to 2 July 2010. He also participated as a keynote speaker at the following meetings: the first meeting of the Permanent Forum of Arab-African Dialogue on Democracy and Human Rights, held at the headquarters of the League of Arab States in Cairo from 7 to 9 December 2009; the expert consultation on the right to education of international migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers convened by the Special Rapporteur on the right to education with the support of the Open Society Institute, in January 2010; and the Global Consultation on Migrant Health organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Madrid from 3 to 5 March 2010. He also attended several events organized by civil society organizations and met on several occasions with civil society representatives to discuss specific issues related to his mandate. 4. The Special Rapporteur continued to receive information about the situation of migrants worldwide and to exchange communications with Governments. A summary of the communications sent from March 2009 through March 2010, together with replies from Governments, was included as an addendum to the 2010 annual report presented at the fourteenth session of the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/14/30/Add.1). 5. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur visited Senegal (17 to 21 August 2009) and Japan (23 to 31 March 2010). The Special Rapporteur also plans to visit South Africa in 2010, at the invitation of the Government. The reports of his country visits will be presented at a forthcoming session of the Human Rights Council in 2011. 6. The Special Rapporteur presented his thematic report to the Human Rights Council on the rights to health and adequate housing in the context of migration (A/HRC/14/30). He recalled the universality and indivisibility of human rights, and stressed that States must take immediate and concrete steps to ensure the realization of the human rights of migrants at all stages of migratory processes in countries of origin, transit and destination. He also made a series of recommendations for further 4 10-47488