A/HRC/20/24
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 April 2012
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twentieth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human
rights of migrants, François Crépeau
Summary
The present report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council
resolution 17/12, and is the first to be presented to the Human Rights Council by the newly
appointed Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crépeau, who
assumed his functions on 1 August 2011. The report provides a summary of activities
undertaken by the mandate holder since taking up his functions. The thematic part of the
report focuses on the detention of migrants in an irregular situation. The first part of the
thematic report sets out the international and regional human rights legal framework,
including with regards to groups of migrants with special protection needs, and the second
part focuses on alternatives to detention. The report draws on the work of the previous
mandate holders in their reports on the human rights of migrants deprived of their liberty
(E/CN.4/2003/85) and on the criminalization of irregular migration (A/HRC/7/12 and
A/65/222).
GE.12- 12596