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PRIORITYMEASURE68
“Prepare comprehensive global and regional strategies to prevent infringement of the human rights of migrants, aswell as to take advantage of the benefits
and face the challenges arising frommigration, including those relating to remittances and skilledmigration in high-demand sectors,
aswell as the differential participation of menandwomen and the transnationalization of care.”
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Various aspects are intertwined in this priority measure, which seeks to guarantee respect for the rights of migrants, regardless of their
migration status, in particular those in the most vulnerable situations, consistently with international instruments, as well as to take
advantage of the benefits of migration.Monitoringmay therefore be combinedwith the other measures set forth in these tables andmust
be conducted in keepingwith specific international instruments (International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers andMembers of Their Families, CMW, 17 countries in the region), and all the other international and inter-American human
rights instruments (and the reports of their treaty bodies). Themandates of theUnitedNations and IOM should also be taken into account.
Support is also forthcoming from the plans and commitments adopted by theRegional Conference onMigration and the SouthAmerican
Conference onMigration, in particular because they include countries that have not ratifiedCMW. CELAC, the Summit of theAmericas,
UNASUR, MERCOSUR, theAndeanCommunity, SICA andCARICOM, among others, are appropriate forums for follow-up, although
they differ in the strengthof their commitments and the number of countries included.
The measure implicitly recognizes the positive impacts that migratory processes have on well-being and human development, demographic
replacement, unmet demand of the labour market, contribution to knowledge and understanding and cultural enrichment in the destination
countries. It also impliespromoting theeffectiveapplicationof ethical standards in the recruitment process formigrantworkers.
In this prioritymeasure, rights intersect with specific dimensions that are spelled out in all the remainingmeasures of this chapter. Care is
explicitly mentioned here, and goes hand-in-hand with the considerations of PM 73, for example. Remittances, considered in PM 70, are
related to SDG 10.c: “By 2030, reduce to less than 3% the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with
costs higher than 5%”, which highlights the lower transaction costs of remittances that could reach the region in advance, which is why the
goalmust be evaluated for relevance (remittances should alsobe studied to see if they contribute to a reduction in asymmetry and inequality).
All the lines of action and the goals and indicators in the remainingmeasures contribute to follow-up of thismeasure.
