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PRIORITYMEASURE72
“Protect decisively thehuman rights of allmigrants, avoidingany formof criminalizationofmigration, andguaranteemigrantsaccess tobasic social services
in educationandhealth, including sexual healthand reproductivehealth,whereappropriate, regardless of theirmigration status,with special attention
tohighly vulnerablegroups, includingunaccompaniedminors, displacedpersons inan irregular situation,womenwhoare victimsof violence,
victims of trafficking, returnees and forciblydisplacedasylum-seekers.”
Possible lines of action
1. Adopt specific national legislation on the rights of migrants, including gender and childhood perspectives; 2. Prepare the regulations,
standards and care protocols necessary for its application, especially in the case of accompanied and unaccompanied children and
adolescents; 3. Prepare and implement policies and programmes to address the vulnerability of migrants in frontier zones, with special
attention to women, children and adolescents; 4. Improve legislation to protect persons who migrate under mixed conditions, forcibly
displaced persons, stateless persons, and asylum-seekers, in accordance with the provisions of intentional human rights law; 5. Comply
fullywith the provisions of theBrasiliaDeclaration on the protection of asylum-seekers, refugees, displaced persons and stateless persons
(2014) and its basic principles and rules.
Targets
1. End the migration of unaccompanied minors and have in place protocols for their care; 2. Have legislation, institutions and policies
devoted explicitly to protecting the human rights of all migrants, with special provisions for women, including sexual and reproductive
health, and for children and adolescents, to protect their higher interest; 3. Have legislation, institutions and policies devoted to protecting
migrants seeking international and humanitarian protection in the framework of the principles, standards and specific conventions in this
area; 4. End statelessness amongmigrants.
Tentative indicators
1. Number (and relative share) of unaccompanied children and adolescents amongmigrants; 2. Number (and relative share) of operational
programmes devoted to migrants in border areas; 3. Number (and relative share) of prophylactic treatments for STIs and provisions of
emergency contraception formigrant women; 4. Number (and relative share) of stateless persons.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
This prioritymeasure is covered by specific international instruments, as indicated inPM 67. The action plans and commitments from the
Regional Conference on Migration and the South American Conference on Migration also provide backing, in particular by including
countries that have not ratified theMigrantWorkersConvention (MWC). The 2014BrasiliaDeclaration of a “Framework for cooperation
and regional solidarity to strengthen the international protection of refugees, displaced and stateless persons in Latin America and the
Caribbean” is another important point of reference, as it reinforces the commitments from the Cartagena +30 Process and adds elements
from the international human rights framework (on refugees and humanitarian aid). In this respect, the mandates of the United Nations
agencies, and inparticular of theOffice of theHighCommissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the IOM are relevant.
In addition, themeasure is consistent with SDG target 8.8, “Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environment for
all workers, includingmigrant workers, particularlywomenmigrants, and those in precarious employment”.
Comments
Thismeasure is closely relatedwithPMs 67 and73, but it distinguishes groups in situations of specific vulnerability. It shouldbe linkedwith
thegoals and indicators for protecting asylum-seekers, refugees, displacedpersons and stateless persons. It is related to chapterD, PM33.
