A/HRC/11/7/Add.2 page 5 migrant women. Following that the Special Rapporteur draws attention to key migration challenges, including: border control and the detention of migrants, organized crime networks and impunity among governmental and law enforcement officials; and assistance to migrants. 7. Among his concerns, the Special Rapporteur notes reports of rampant impunity for instances of corruption, including bribery and extortion, and violence and abuse of labour practices, especially against women and children. Attention to the physical and psychological health of migrants seems to be of utmost urgency. The Special Rapporteur is concerned that this impunity seems to be linked to abuses of power and resources at the municipal, state and federal levels. As in the conclusions of his predecessor during her visit to Mexico in 2002 (see E/CN.4/2003/85/Add.2), the Special Rapporteur calls for an end to the dichotomy between what Mexican authorities and organizations ask for its own migrants abroad in terms of protection, and the type of treatment it offers to the foreign-born population in Mexico. 8. Based on these observations, the Special Rapporteur offers conclusions and recommendations to the Government of Mexico and to the United Nations. The Special Rapporteur, in formulating his recommendations, gives special attention to those made by his predecessor following her visit in 2002 and by the Committee on Migrant Workers in their concluding observations in 2006.1 II. INTERNATIONAL AND FEDERAL PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS A. International protection of the rights of migrants 9. Based on Mexico’s history as a country of origin to the United States and as a transit country for northward movements, migration has long been a priority on the Government’s domestic and foreign policy agendas. At the international level, especially within the United Nations, Mexico has demonstrated its commitment to the promotion of the human rights of migrants and has encouraged the development of regional and international law in this respect. Mexico played a leading role in the establishment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants by the Commission on Human Rights, a mandate renewed in June 2008 by the Human Rights Council. It also played an important role in the adoption of the paragraphs on migrants’ rights in the Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and in promoting the inclusion of a human rights perspective in the process leading up to the second Global Forum on Migration and Development, held in October 2008 (“the Manila process”). 10. Mexico is a party to most of the international and regional human rights treaties, and the Special Rapporteur notes that, since his predecessor’s visit in 2002, Mexico has ratified the following instruments: the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, 1 CMW/C/MEX/CO/1.