A/61/324 I. Introduction 1. The present report is the fifth to be submitted to the General Assembly by the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and the second presented by the present Special Rapporteur, Jorge Bustamante. 2. This report covers the activities carried out during the period 1 August 2005 to 30 August 2006. It contains a detailed description of the concerns presented by the Special Rapporteur to the General Assembly’s High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development. The report also describes certain significant developments in relation to the protection of the human rights of migrants that have occurred during the period under review. II. Mandate 3. The activities of the Special Rapporteur are carried out in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/44, in which the Commission established the mechanism and defined its functions. At its sixty-second session, the Commission decided, by its resolution 2005/47, to extend the Special Rapporteur’s mandate for a further three years. The Human Rights Council, in decision 1/102 extended the mandate for one year. 4. The international legal framework for the Special Rapporteur’s work and the methods of work were reviewed in this year’s report to the Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2006/73 and Add.1 and 2) and were largely based on the work carried out by the previous Special Rapporteur, Gabriela Rodríguez Pizarro (see E/CN.4/2001/83 and Add.1 and A/57/292). III. Activities A. Summary of activities 5. The report submitted by the Special Rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights contains a summary of meetings and activities in which the Special Rapporteur participated from August to December 2005. During the period not covered by that report, the Special Rapporteur took part in the following events: (a) On 1 June 2006 he gave the keynote speech at the General Assembly of the Parliamentarian Confederation of the Americas — (COPA VII), which took place in Quito; (b) On 27 June 2006 he participated in a workshop entitled “Workshop on Migration and Human Rights” organized by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which took place in New York; (c) On 18 and 19 July 2006, he participated in a meeting in Madrid entitled “Encounter on Migration and Development” organized by CEPAL/CELADE in preparation for the Ibero-America summit of heads of State in Montevideo to take place in 2007; 06-51782 3