A/76/257 I. Introduction 1. In the present report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales analyses, the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the human rights of migrants. 2. In preparing the report, the Special Rapporteur issued a questionnaire on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the human rights of migrants. He expresses his gratitude to all States, United Nations entities, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations who provided their contributions. Re plies were received from 21 States, 3 United Nations entities and 1 other international organization, 9 national human rights institutions and ombudspersons and 46 civil society organizations. 1 3. The report is based primarily on the inputs and submission s received, complemented by additional research, data and legal documentation issued by the United Nations, international organizations and States, as well as civil society organizations, academics and other open resources, that were publicly available as of June 2021. II. Activities2 4. On 12 April, the Special Rapporteur participated in a session of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. On 14 April, he attended a session of the working gr oup on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination. 5. On 26 to 28 April, the Special Rapporteur participated in the Latin American and Caribbean regional review of the Global Compact for Migration, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. On 29 April, he attended a conference on promoting the rights of migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons to quality education, organized by Education International African Region and the Special Rapporteur on the right to education. 6. On 5 May, he took part in the launch of a feminist COVID -19 story book on migration, convened by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, the National Alliance of Women Human Rights Defenders and Aaprabasi Mahila Kamdar Samuha Nepal. 7. On 6 May, the Special Rapporteur participated in a webinar on advancing deinstitutionalization, organized by the Institute for Lifecourse and Society at the National University of Ireland, Galway, at which he spoke about the situation of migrants on this matter. 8. On 14 May, he spoke at a conference to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the finding of massive clandestine graves in San Fernando, Mexico, organized by the Foundation for Justice and the Rule of Law. 9. On 21 May, he was the keynote speaker at a workshop organized by the University Carlos III of Madrid about the right to health of migrants and the non-refoulement principle. On 24 May, he gave a lecture at the School of Diplomacy __________________ 1 2 21-10577 Submissions are available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Migration/SRMigrants/Pages/ COVID.aspx. For activities of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants between July 2020 and March 2021, see the Report on means to address the human rights impact of pushbacks of migrants on land and at sea, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/47/30. 3/22