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Ensure the enjoyment of human rights by minorities and vulnerable groups in the country, especially those in detention centres for migrants along the southern border of the United States

Guarantee respect for the life, dignity, security and human rights of migrants and refugees, ensure adequate conditions in detention centres, prioritize the family unit and safeguard the best interests of the child

Include in legislation the ban on the separation of families in the context of migration

Stop separating young children from their migrant parents and putting them in cages

Improve conditions of confinement pertaining to immigrants to meet human rights standards and international treaties

Ensure that detention centres for migrants and refugees and the treatment they receive meet the basic conditions called for under international human rights law and standards

Fully guarantee the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrant children and adolescents regardless of their immigration status

Protect the rights of children who arrive in the United States and seek alternatives to the current detention system for migrant children, both unaccompanied and part of family groups, and allow them to remain under the protection of their parents

Stop the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of migrants and asylum seekers and the separation of hundreds of minors from their families

Stop incarcerating migrants, including migrant children, and guarantee the rights of migrants

Seek alternatives to the present immigration detention system and improve conditions of confinement to meet basic human rights standards

That the United States Department of Homeland Security and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency should acknowledge the human right of families to remain united and/or be reunited

Increase its efforts to protect migrants, especially those in vulnerable groups, including by seeking alternatives to detention for migrant children and ensuring access to basic services

Ensure that the detention and separation of migrant families and asylum seekers are not used as punitive measures to deter irregular entry into the country

Ensure that detention conditions for immigrants, particularly for minors, comply with international human rights law

Review administrative measures that criminally penalize migrants who enter the country without authorization

End the zero-tolerance policy and protect the rights of migrants

Institute adequate mechanisms and means to deal with migratory flows in full respect with human dignity and international standards

Strengthen the rights of migrant workers and their family members

Step up measures to protect and ensure the rights of migrants

Make efforts in favour of the human rights of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees

Develop norms that ensure free, prior and informed consultations with indigenous communities in relation to projects with a potential impact on their territories and traditional ways of life, in accordance with Sustainable Development Goals 10 and 16

Create a federal mechanism to provide the necessary support to boys and young men in order to avoid any delay in their psychosocial development

Continue efforts made and measures taken to ensure the protection of women’s and children’s rights

Vigorously continue measures directed at the elimination of violence against women and girls

Prioritize services for preventing and responding to gender-based violence, including in institutional settings such as the penitentiary system

Eliminate the wage gap and gender-based violence and guarantee access to justice and reparation for victims

Strengthen further the existing non-discriminatory, inclusive and integrated approach to work to ensure women’s equality and the promotion and protection of these rights

Implement fully the commitments in the women and peace and security agenda at the national and international levels, notably in the framework of its role as a member of the Security Council, and ensure – politically and financially – the participation of women in peace processes

Encourage further private employers to strengthen equality and to offer paid maternity leave