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HRC 53: Resolution on the human rights situation of migrants - 13 July 2023
Speakers:
- HRC President
- Representatives:
- Mexico
- Lithuania
- USA
Resolution adopted with no vote
The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution on the human rights of migrants.
As for the human rights of migrants: prevention and accountability for human rights violations in transit, the Council called upon States to ensure that their migration legislation, policies and practices were consistent with international human rights law. The Office of the High Commissioner was requested to convene a half-day intersessional panel discussion on avenues to address human rights violations and abuses against migrants in transit, with a report on that panel to be presented to the Council at its fifty-seventh session.
In a resolution (A/HRC/53/L.18) on the Human rights of migrants: prevention and accountability for human rights violations in transit, adopted without a vote (as orally revised), the Council calls upon States to ensure that their migration legislation, policies and practices are consistent with international human rights law, and to promote the enjoyment of human rights by all migrants without discrimination of any kind which could result in death, disappearances, violence; to work with national human rights institutions, and other relevant stakeholders to address human rights violations against migrants in transit; to adopt measures to prevent deaths, disappearances, acts of torture, violence and ensure that all human rights violations are subject to independent and transparent investigations and that perpetrators are held accountable; and to adopt concrete measures to adequately train public officials and others who work in those facilities and in border areas; and the Council requests the Office of the High Commissioner maintain its active engagement with the United Nations Network on Migration as a member of its Executive Committee, to ensure efficiency in mainstreaming human rights in migration governance; to continue its work on promoting and protecting the human rights of all migrants; to convene a half-day intersessional panel discussion on avenues to prevent and address human rights violations and abuses against migrants in transit and to ensure the meaningful participation of migrants and their family members; to prepare a summary report on the panel discussion and to submit the report to the Council at its fifty-seventh session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-ninth session; and decides to remain seized of the matter.