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Meeting of the Liaison Officer Network to Combat
Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking Regional
Consultation Group on Migration (RCGM) Managua,
NicaraguaJune 2014
REGIONAL NETWORK FOR CIVIL ORGANIZATIONS ON
MIGRATION RNCOM
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• This is a highly important time for the region,
  in view of the humanitarian emergency situations
  along the migration route and in reception
  centres, as well as the administrative detention
  and deportation of boys, girls and adolescents in
  the United States, Mexico and Central America.
  This forces us to identify this time as a moment
  of crisis in the protection of the human rights
  of unaccompanied and separated migrant boys,
  girls and adolescents. This situation had been
  hidden for a long time. Today, the obsoleteness
  and inadequacy of legal frameworks and systems to
  provide assistance and protection to boys, girls
  and adolescents has become apparent in countries
  of origin, transit and destination.
• We are concerned about the significant number of
  boys, girls and adolescents that are being kept
  in administrative detention centres in precarious
  conditions, victims of abuse and fundamental
  human rights violations and at high risk of
  falling into the hands of migrant smuggling and
  trafficking networks and transnational organized
  crime.

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• RNCOM calls on the States to establish
  appropriate shelters for victims of trafficking,
  considering the specific needs of women, men and
  boys, girls and adolescents victims. In many
  cases, victims of trafficking are sent to
  detention centres where they do not feel
  confident enough to report that they have been
  victims and are at risk of being re-victimized.

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• We recognize the efforts by the Regional
  Coalition Against Trafficking In Persons and
  Migrant Smuggling and the invitation for RNCOM to
  be an observing member.
• Therefore, we request that this participation be
  proactive and that recommendations of RNCOM be
  taken into account in processes of assistance,
  prevention, protection, awareness-raising,
  development of legislation and policymaking for
  the protection of victims of trafficking in
  Member States of RCM.
• We urge States to continue to strengthen national
  coalitions against trafficking in persons through
  representative participation of civil society
  organizations in each national coalition and its
  intersectoral sub-committees.

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• We are concerned about the massive deportation of
  migrants, particularly boys, girls and
  adolescents without appropriate documents or that
  have entered the country of transit and
  destination as smuggled migrants.
• We suggest that States review the highly
  discretional nature of administrative mechanisms
  for migration management and of the roles of
  relevant officers that exists in some countries,
  since this places the integrity of victims at
  risk, who are immediately identified as persons
  to be deported.

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• It is necessary to continue implementing training
  and awareness-raising for administrative and
  judicial officers on detection of victims of
  migrant smuggling and trafficking.
• RNCOM recommends that Member States of RCM
  approve and implement specific legislation
  against the crimes of migrant smuggling and
  trafficking. We recognize the advances made in
  some countries however, others continue to
  typify the crimes in their penal code, and this
  can lead to mistakes and revictimization.
• We request that, upon identifying victims of the
  crime of trafficking, a special visa is granted
  to them, and that mechanisms are facilitated for
  obtaining this visa when appropriate.

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• RNCOM insists on the need to increase inspections
  by Ministries of Labour with the aim of
  preventing trafficking for the purpose of labour
  exploitation of migrant men, women, senior
  citizens as well as boys, girls and adolescents.
• It is essential to strengthen existing mechanisms
  and develop efficient inter-institutional
  coordination mechanisms to monitor cases and
  implement training actions, with the aim of
  enabling the identification of victims of
  trafficking for the purpose of labour
  exploitation and commercial sexual exploitation.
• We invite governments to establish together
  with civil society dialogue with employers,
  contractors and unions in order to prevent the
  crime of trafficking for the purpose of labour
  exploitation.
• Strengthening processes to ensure access to
  justice and combat impunity is essential.

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• We urge governments to ratify the United Nations
  International Convention on the Protection of the
  Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
  Their Families (1990) and ILO Convention No. 189
  on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. In addition,
  we invite States to harmonize national
  legislation with international mechanisms that
  have already been ratified, in order to comply
  with the obligation that has been taken on upon
  ratifying an international human rights
  instrument.
• We invite governments to take up again joint
  actions implemented within the framework of the
  Ad Hoc Group in regard to the crime of
  trafficking in persons, with a special focus on
  populations in vulnerable situations, and
  especially unaccompanied and separated migrant
  boys, girls and adolescents.

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• Determining and assessing the best interests of
  the child and family reunification should
  prevail.
• The deportation and deprivation of the liberty
  of migrant boys, girls and adolescents is not the
  solution to the problem of violence and
  inequality experienced by boys, girls and
  adolescents today.
• RNCOM is willing to join the campaigns to support
  the protection of boys, girls and adolescents in
  vulnerable situations.