A/59/377 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, by 177; and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, by 192. 20 6 Adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 45/158, of 18 December 1990. The Convention entered into force on 1 July 2003; as at 31 August 2004, it had been ratified by 26 countries, namely, Azerbaijan, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Philippines, Senegal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Uganda and Uruguay. 7 At its twenty-seventh session, held in 1986, the Human Rights Committee adopted general comment No. 15, on the position of aliens under the Covenant; at its thirty-seventh session (1989), general comment No. 18, on non-discrimination; and at its sixty-seventh session (1999), general comment No. 27, on freedom of movement (article 12). At its sixty-fifth session (2004), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination adopted general recommendation XXX, on discrimination against non-citizens, to replace general recommendation XI (1993). Other general comments and general recommendations of interest are the following: general comment No. 14, on the right to the highest attainable standard of health (art. 12), adopted by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; recommendation No. 21, on equality in marriage and family relations, by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; and general comment No. 3, on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child, adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. All the general comments and general recommendations adopted by the treaty monitoring bodies may be found in document HRI/GEN/1/Rev.7. 8 The Working Group’s mandate was clarified and expanded by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1997/50, whereby it included the question of immigrants and asylum-seekers held in administrative custody. See, for example, documents E/CN.4/2003/8/Add.2 and E/CN.4/2004/3. 9 See the IOM Round Table on Managing Migration at the Regional Level, Geneva, 27 May 2002, http://www.iom.int/en/PDF_Files/mprp/Roundtable/Roundtable_E.PDF. 10 See www.iom.int/berneinitiative. 11 See www.gcim.org. 12 A/CONF.171/13, chap. X.A., para. 10.1. 13 In February 2004, the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, set up by ILO in 2002, published its report A fair globalization: creating opportunities for all (www.ilo.org/public/english/wcsdg/docs/report.pdf). The report states that global imbalances are morally unacceptable and politically unsustainable. In view of this situation, the Commission proposes a strategy for change based on a set of recommendations. Based on the conviction that fair rules of trade and capital flows need to be complemented by fair rules for the cross-border movement of people, the Commission states in its report that it is necessary to build a multilateral framework that provides uniform and transparent rules for the cross-border movement of people and balances the interests of both migrants themselves and of countries of origin and destination. 14 See the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking (E/2002/68/Add.1). 15 On consular assistance before the International Court of Justice, see the Case concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States of America), LaGrand Case (Germany v. United States of America) and the Case concerning Avena and other Mexican nationals (Mexico v. United States of America). At the regional level, see Advisory Opinion OC-16/99, of the 16th Inter-American Court of Human Rights, of 1 October 1999: The right to information on consular assistance in the framework of the guarantees of the due process of law. 16 M. Grange, “Regional Migration Consultative Processes: Where is Civil Society?” in Asian Migrant Yearbook 2002-2003, Asian Migrant Centre Ltd. and Migrant Forum in Asia, pp. 56-58.