• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 2: Protection of the Rights of Smuggled Migrants

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Assistance and protection in the Protocol
• International human rights and refugee law
• Vulnerable groups
• Positive and negative obligations of the State
• Identification of smuggled migrants and first responses
• Participation of smuggled migrants in legal proceedings
• The role of non-governmental organizations
• Smuggled migrants & other categories of migrants
• Short-, mid- and long-term measures

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2019.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Committee on Civil and Political Rights (1989), General Comment No. 18: Non-discrimination
• Committee on Civil and Political Rights (1986), General Comment No. 15: The Position of Aliens under the Covenant
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2006), The Rights of Non-Citizens
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2013), Core Human Rights in the Two Covenants
• International Council on Human Rights Policy, Irregular Migration, Migrant Smuggling and Human Rights: Towards Coherence   (2010), pp. 49-57
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Global Migration Group, Principles and Guidelines, supported by practical guidance, on the Human Rights Protection of Migrants in Vulnerable Situations   (2018)

 

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