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110. All States are urged to adopt legislation to prevent trafficking in persons. Information
campaigns should be carried out and training provided by States, non-governmental
organizations, social organizations and universities about the vulnerability of and danger faced
by undocumented migrants. Such campaigns should be carried out by States of origin and by
transit and host States. The Special Rapporteur requests that legislation should be drafted to
penalize the sale of documentation by organized crime and that the impunity of agents of
organized crime and the criminalization of victims should be ended.
Measures for the prevention of violations of human rights
111. The Member States of the United Nations should agree to study situations which give rise
to irregular emigration in States of origin, calling for a far-reaching inter-regional, regional and
bilateral dialogue (among countries of origin, transit and destination) on the prevention of
irregular migration, whose most vulnerable victims are women and unaccompanied children. In
this connection, joint responsibility must be brought into play. States must make consular
protection fully effective.
112. The Special Rapporteur urges States of origin to establish mechanisms to guarantee the
inclusion of all citizens as a means of encouraging them not to leave, as well as to formulate
programmes and projects at the local and regional levels to strengthen community and national
holding capacity.
113. Information campaigns, in particular, must be carried out to prevent irregular migration
by supplying information on all the risks involved in sending away unaccompanied minors or
women in response to modelling and other job offers which may put them in the hands of agents
for the traffic in persons. Information on the possibility of deportation and detention must be
clear-cut. It has to be easy for consular authorities to distribute.
114. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States should develop documentation
programmes for its citizens, adults and children alike, not only for national purposes but, above
all, for when they are outside their countries as migrants, since the possession of documents
gives them access to fundamental rights. Such documents include birth certificates, identity
papers and records, needed to work, study and have access to health facilities in the countries to
which they are migrating.
Racism, xenophobia and racial discrimination
115. States are strongly urged, particularly this year, when they will take part in the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of
Intolerance, to continue to promote information campaigns on the risks run by societies where
there have been outbreaks of xenophobia and racism towards the migrant population. The media
play a key role in action to combat violations of human rights which occur as a result of
xenophobic acts and which have consequences not only for those affected, but also for children
and young people as models for societies that discriminate.
116. States are strongly urged to provide their border officials with training in the international
human rights conventions which prohibit racism, xenophobia and discrimination. States must,