E/CN.4/2001/83 page 6 degrading treatment against migrants in different parts of the world, strongly condemned all forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia related to access to employment, vocational training, housing, schooling, health services and social services, as well as services intended for use by the public, and welcomed the active role played by governmental and non-governmental organizations in combating racism and xenophobia and assisting individual victims of racist acts, including migrant victims. 11. The resolution took note with appreciation of the efforts made by some States to penalize the international trafficking of migrants and to protect the victims of this illegal activity. 12. The resolution also reiterated the need for all States to protect fully the universally recognized human rights of migrants, especially those of women and children, regardless of their legal status, and to treat them humanely, particularly with regard to assistance and protection, applying inter alia the measures provided under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations regarding the right to receive consular assistance by the country of origin. 13. In that resolution, the Commission requested the Special Rapporteur to include in her work schedule a programme of visits for the two following years, with a view to improving the protection afforded to the human rights of migrants, thus implementing as broadly and as fully as possible all the aspects of her mandate. It also encouraged Governments to give serious consideration to inviting the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries so as to enable her to fulfil her mandate effectively. The Commission requested all Governments to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur in the performance of the tasks and duties mandated, to furnish all information requested and to react promptly to her urgent appeals. 14. On a number of occasions, the Commission has adopted resolutions requesting the competent human rights mechanisms and, in particular, the special rapporteurs to pay particular attention to various questions. In its resolution 2000/85, entitled “Rights of the child”, the Commission requested States to cooperate fully with and assist the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. That resolution recommended that, within their mandates, all relevant human rights mechanisms, in particular special rapporteurs, regularly and systematically take a child’s rights perspective into account in the implementation of their mandates, especially by paying attention to particular situations in which children are in danger and where their human rights are violated, and that they take into account the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 15. In its resolution 2000/44, entitled “Traffic in women and girls”, the Commission encouraged, inter alia, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants to participate in and contribute to the work of the twenty-sixth session of the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in 2001 that will focus on the issue of trafficking. II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK 16. The Special Rapporteur is authorized by the Commission to examine ways and means of overcoming existing obstacles to the full and effective protection of the human rights of