A/62/218 with members of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Senate. During the NGO briefing in Atlanta, the Special Rapporteur heard from migrants and migrants human rights advocates who had travelled from across the southern United States. 15. In New York, the Special Rapporteur heard individuals testify about the post-9/11 backlash, including the experiences of 11 September detainees. The visit was concluded in Washington, D.C., with meetings with senior officials of the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. 16. Migrant rights issues raised at these various meetings included, but were not limited to, the following: indefinite detention; mandatory detention; racial profiling; family separation; aggressive raids; anti-immigrant legislation; linguistic, racial, ethnic, gender and sexual-orientation discrimination; State violence; wage theft; forced labour; limited access to health care and education; the growing antiimmigrant climate (including the post-9/11 backlash); and significant limitations on due process and judicial oversight. 17. The Special Rapporteur is discussing with Member States the possibility of undertaking further official missions in 2008. He has so far received positive indications from the Governments of Guatemala, Mexico and South Africa. The Special Rapporteur wishes to thank these Governments for their positive response. IV. Other activities A. Human Rights Council 18. The Special Rapporteur attended the fourth session of the Human Rights Council on 22 March, where he presented his second annual report. That report focused on five main themes: border control and measures to reduce and address irregular migration; expulsion; conditions for admission and stay; the rights of migrants; and their protection. In his statement to the Council, the Special Rapporteur highlighted the pressing need to address the complex patterns of human rights abuse directed against migrants. He stressed that more than one third of migrants remained undocumented, residing far from their homes and families; those people, especially undocumented women and children, were one of the most vulnerable groups and routinely face violence, hostility and various abuses. The Special Rapporteur also noted that despite the fact that the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, adopted by the General Assembly in 1990, was one of the seven basic instruments defining a global human rights protection regime for migrant workers, Governments still needed to be convinced that its ratification was necessary. In his concluding remarks the Special Rapporteur reiterated the need for a comprehensive approach to migrants’ human rights in order to ensure that migrants had a framework for protection and enjoyed rights appropriate and adequate to their particularly vulnerable situation. 19. During the interactive dialogue, the representative of Indonesia congratulated the Special Rapporteur on his report and reiterated the commitment made by the Indonesian Minister of Law and Human Rights to the effect that Indonesia would ratify the International Convention for the Protection of the Human Rights of All 07-45625 5