A/71/285 address human rights protection gaps for migrants. The guidance could form an important part of the global compact, as it is derived from existing obligations under international law and seeks to assist States and other stakeholders with regard to the development, strengthening, implementation and monitoring of measures to protect migrants in vulnerable situations and in large and/or mixed movements. As demonstrated herein, the Special Rapporteur has contributed to this effort, and believes in the importance of such a consultative process and guidance to assist States and other stakeholders in the implementation of their human rights obligations in devising rights-based responses to large-scale, irregular and precarious movements. 9. Giving favourable consideration to incorporating into national policies and practices the insights of the State-led Migrants in Countries in Crisis Initiative to protect and assist migrants in countries experiencing conflicts or natural disasters and of the Nansen Initiative in its agenda for the protection of persons crossing international borders as a result of natural disasters and climate change, and continuing to develop such initiatives 107. The Special Rapporteur supports such initiatives and notes that a broader framework based on human rights for all migrants is required to encompass these initiatives so as to guarantee a more holistic approach. 10. Forging a closer relationship between the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration, including through a strengthened legal relationship 108. The recent unprecedented numbers of irregular migrants seeking safety and security serve to underline the fact that, despite the existence of legal frameworks on migration issues, a comprehensive framework for migration governance is still lacking. Given that migration is a natural human phenomenon unlikely to end in the foreseeable future, and as stated in the Special Rapporteur’s 2013 report to the General Assembly on global migration governance (see A/68/283), the United Nations must be involved to a greater extent in the debate on global migration governance, ensuring that proper attention is given to the human rights of migrants. 109. Owing to the lack of a comprehensive framework, global migration governance is fragmented with different institutional approaches and normative frameworks relating to specific aspects of migration, such as the human rights of migrants, the smuggling of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers and labour migration. 110. The Special Rapporteur observes that the reluctance of States to strengthen migration governance seems to be based on the misconception that this will limit their sovereignty. States have the power to determine who enters and stays in their territory. More governance does not mean giving up this sovereignty. O n the contrary, States would have more control if there were more migration governance. More governance simply means improving the coordination and cooperation between States, leading to better governance over migration that would better respect human rights, thus further protecting States from allegations of human rights abuses against migrants. 111. As the scope and complexities of migration continue to grow, the alternative to more robust global migration governance is a highly unregulated system, with a range of uncoordinated actors, including from the private sector. In reality, State sovereignty is more challenged by insufficient global migration governance, which facilitates the role of other actors, such as exploitative migrant smugglers and 16-13509 21/24