E/CN.4/2001/83 page 5 Pursuant to this resolution, on 6 August 1999, the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fifth session, after consultation with the members of the Bureau, appointed Ms. Gabriela Rodríguez Pizarro (Costa Rica) as Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. The experience and recommendations of the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on the Human Rights of Migrants have been duly taken into account by the Special Rapporteur in the performance of her functions with a view to the protection and promotion of the human rights of migrants. On 28 April 2000, the Commission adopted resolution 2000/48 entitled “Human rights of migrants”, in which it encouraged the Special Rapporteur to continue to carry out the functions provided for in resolution 1999/44. 5. In this section, the Special Rapporteur describes the most salient features of the Commission resolutions which established and continued her mandate. The provisions of the mandate refer to the Special Rapporteur’s functions and matters of concern in respect of the situation of migrants throughout the world. 6. In its resolution 1999/44, the Commission stated that the Special Rapporteur should formulate strategies and recommendations for promotion and application and establish criteria for policies to promote the human rights of migrants. The resolution requested the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out her mandate, to take into account bilateral and regional negotiations which aim at addressing, inter alia, the return and reinsertion of migrants who are non-documented or in an irregular situation. 7. In that resolution, the Commission requested the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out her functions, to request and receive information from all relevant sources, including migrants themselves, on violations of the human rights of migrants and their families; to formulate appropriate recommendations to prevent and remedy violations of the human rights of migrants, wherever they may occur; to promote the effective application of relevant international norms and standards on the issue; and to recommend actions and measures applicable at the national, regional and international levels to eliminate violations of the human rights of migrants. 8. The Commission also requested the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out her functions, to take into account a gender perspective when requesting and analysing information, as well as to give special attention to the occurrence of multiple discrimination and violence against migrant women and to contribute to the preparatory work for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. 9. In its resolution 54/166, the General Assembly welcomed the decision of the Commission to appoint a special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and endorsed the tasks and duties mandated to her by the Commission’s resolution. 10. On 25 April 2000, the Commission adopted resolution 2000/48, in which it encouraged the Special Rapporteur to continue with her work of overcoming obstacles to the full and effective protection of the human rights of migrants and referred to key questions relating to the mandate. In that resolution, the Commission, recalling General Assembly resolution 404/144 of 13 December 1985, by which it approved the Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live, and expressing its concern at the manifestations of racism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination and inhuman and