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Promotion and protection of human rights, including ways and means to promote the human rights of migrants (A/69/277)

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Sixty-ninth session
Item 69 (b) of the provisional agenda*
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

Report of the Secretary-General

Summary

The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 68/179. In that resolution, the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit at its sixty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the resolution, including an analysis on ways and means to promote and protect the rights of migrant children, particularly in the case of unaccompanied migrant children and children separated from their families.

Written submissions were received from States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in response to a note verbale from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on behalf of the Secretary-General requesting information on the implementation of the resolution.

The report contains an analysis of ways and means to promote and protect the human rights of migrant children, including unaccompanied children or those separated from their families, with a focus on the risks faced by adolescents. The report also addresses the challenges to and recent practices in promoting and protecting the human rights of all migrants at international borders.