having regard to the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 of 1989 and the additional
protocols thereto,
having regard to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families2 of 1990,
having regard to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance3 of 2006,
having regard to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities4 of 2006 and
the additional protocol thereto,
having regard to the report of the United Nations Secretary-General of 3 August 2015
on the promotion and protection of human rights, including ways and means to promote
the human rights of migrants5,
having regard to UN General Assembly Resolution 69/167 of 18 December 2014 on the
protection of migrants6,
having regard to the work of various international human rights mechanisms, including
the reports of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants,
François Crépeau7, and of other Special Rapporteurs, the Universal Periodic Review
and the work of other treaty bodies,
having regard to the work and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner on
Human Rights (OHCHR), including the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on
Human Rights at International Borders and the Report on the Situation of Migrants in
Transit,
having regard to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,
having regard to the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity8,
1
http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx
2
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/cmw.htm
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CED/Pages/ConventionCED.aspx
3
4
5
6
7
8
http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml
http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/70/259
http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/69/167
‘Banking on mobility over a generation: follow-up to the regional study on the
management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human
rights of migrants’, 8 May 2015, available at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session29/Documents/A_H
RC_29_36_ENG.doc
‘Regional study on the management of the external borders of the European Union and
its impact on the human rights of migrants’, 24 April 2013, available at:
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.
HRC.23.46_en.pdf
As launched by the Institute for Human Rights and Business in December 2012,
available under the link http://www.dhaka-principles.org/