A/HRC/41/38 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 34/21. It contains information on the activities carried out by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants since the submission of his report to the seventy-third session of the General Assembly (A/73/178/Rev.1). The thematic section is dedicated to the impact of migration on migrant women and girls, from a gender perspective. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur A. Country visits 2. The Special Rapporteur undertook a visit to the Niger from 1 to 8 October 2018 (A/HRC/41/38/Add.1).1 He plans to conduct a visit to Hungary from 10 to 17 July 2019, and thanks the Government of Hungary for its invitation. 2 3. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, El Salvador and Libya for accepting the country visit request and he looks forward to setting the dates for those visits soon. He thanks the Governments of Kuwait and Poland, who have extended an invitation to the mandate holder to visit their countries in 2020 at the earliest. B. Other activities 4. On 18 October 2018, the Special Rapporteur presented his thematic report on access to justice for migrants to the General Assembly (A/73/178/Rev.1), and he thanks those who took the floor for the interesting discussion. 5. During the process to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the Special Rapporteur was actively engaged in anchoring human rights into the Compact. He now stands ready to contribute to the implementation, follow-up and review of the Compact, and underlined that fact during his trip to Marrakech, Morocco in December 2018. From 4 to 7 December, he participated in the eleventh summit meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, and on 10 and 11 December in the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Marrakech – a remarkable moment for global migration governance. 6. Furthermore, within the framework of the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration, the Special Rapporteur contributed to several side events in Marrakech. On 8 December, he participated in an event organized by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) on promoting the human rightsbased and gender-responsive implementation of the Global Compact for Migration. On 9 December, he contributed to an event on the role of the special procedures and treaty bodies in delivering the Compact, co-organized by himself and the Quaker United Nations Office, and to an event on migrants in vulnerable situations, co-organized by Amnesty International, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Special Rapporteur also remains actively engaged in the expert working group on addressing women’s rights in the Compact. 7. During the reporting period, the Special Rapporteur held various lectures. He spoke at Columbia Law School in New York on 17 October 2018 about responding to the global 1 2 The country visit to Mali announced for May 2018 could not be conducted due to security concerns, and has been postponed until further notice. The Special Rapporteur will submit a report on his visit to Hungary to the Human Rights Council at its forty-fourth session. 3