A/65/222 children should be repatriated only if it is in their best interests, namely, for the purpose of family reunification and after due process of law. 51. The Special Rapporteur also wishes to draw the General Assembly’s attention to the dearth of qualitative and quantitative information regarding the experiences of migrant children (both unaccompanied and with their families) within migration control measures (e.g., information about their treatment at borders and in detention centres). He also wishes to draw attention to the increase of exploitation of migrant children for economic purposes and regrets that indicators on these issues are absent in most transit and destination countries, and that monitoring mechanisms both governmental and non-governmental, are quite scarce. C. Examples of good practices and alternatives to the criminalization of irregular migration 52. In discharging his mandate, the Special Rapporteur has come across a number of initiatives, activities and policies implemented by Governments, intergovernmental and civil society organizations and the private sector that reflect commitment to the realization of human rights while managing irregular migration. The Special Rapporteur wishes to highlight a number of those practices, policies and programmes and, while emphasizing that the list is not exhaustive, to encourage all parties to submit to him information on other pertinent practices, policies and programmes. 1. Good practices 53. In the Special Rapporteur’s view, creating opportunities for regular migration is a key strategy to address the root causes of irregular migration and discourage migrant smuggling and human trafficking. In this regard, he welcomes regional integration frameworks, such as the European Union, the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), all of which favour labour mobility through legal migration channels. The Special Rapporteur wishes to highlight some practices aimed at promoting human rightsbased approaches to migration management and at regularizing the situation of non-documented migrants on a large scale. (a) International frameworks for rights-based partnerships on migration management 54. The Special Rapporteur also welcomes the adoption of international frameworks for rights-based partnerships on migration management by international organizations and commends the global efforts of those organizations to create knowledge-sharing tools to promote a rights-based approach to migration management. He celebrates the adoption, in 2005, by the International Labour Organization (ILO) of its multilateral framework on labour migration, based on a set of non-binding principles and guidelines for a rights-based approach to labour migration. This initiative is based on research, global labour migration practices and principles contained in relevant international instruments and international and regional policy guidelines, including the International Agenda for Migration Management. It also includes the collection of examples of best practices, which have been broadly publicized by ILO. In the Special Rapporteur’s view, the collection of good practices is a valuable means to provide practical guidance to 14 10-47488