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Strengthen further measures to ensure the protection of the human rights of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, victims of trafficking and members of other vulnerable groups in the context of irregular migration, especially women and children

Take measures to ensure that migrant workers and their families have access to justice, regardless of their immigration status

Investigate and prosecute all human rights violations suffered by migrants and asylum seekers, in particular sub-Saharan Africans, including kidnappings, torture, sexual violence, the sale of people as slaves and arbitrary detention

Adopt measures to prevent and combat violence and discrimination against migrant workers, especially those from sub-Saharan Africa

Provide detained migrants with legal aid and interpretation services and guarantee the right of all to have their situation reviewed, the right to appeal and the right to reparations or compensation

Strengthen measures to protect migrant women and children of migrants from sexual violence and exploitation and ensure their access to victim support services

Ensure the protection and enjoyment of human rights by internally displaced persons, including through their voluntary return to their places of origin and by establishing consultative and participatory mechanisms to ensure that they are involved in decision-making

Decriminalize irregular migration, intensify campaigns to prevent the trafficking of migrant workers and enact legislation that prohibits trafficking in persons without criminalizing migrants

Protect migrants and asylum seekers from refoulement

Step up efforts to protect migrants and displaced persons by ensuring access to health-care services and improving the condition of detention shelters and continue to work with other stakeholders to support safe, orderly and regular migration

Implement robust strategies for internally displaced persons in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Continue efforts to allow internally displaced persons to return home

Enhance its plans to facilitate the return of conflict-driven internally displaced persons to their homes

Put an end to the arbitrary and widespread detention of migrants and implement the Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa of the Organization of African Unity and other ratified conventions, while considering the ratification of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Protocol thereto

Continue efforts to safeguard the rights of migrants and to combat irregular migration

Conclude a memorandum of understanding with UNHCR and repeal legal restrictions in terms of the nationalities potentially eligible for refugee status

Strengthen efforts to provide appropriate and effective responses to internal displacement, in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Redouble its efforts in the preparation of the national irregular migration strategy, with a view to improving conditions for migrants

Guarantee and reinforce the rights of migrant workers and members of their families

Redouble efforts, including through legal reforms, to protect migrants from all forms of discrimination, racism and xenophobia, as well as from all forms of physical violence and sexual exploitation

End the automatic detention of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees by amending Law No. 19 and ensuring that conditions of detention are in line with its obligations under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Develop a national road map to establish a strategy for responding appropriately and effectively to situations of internal displacement in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Take urgent and immediate steps to address the plight of migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and trafficked persons in Libya, ensuring full respect for their human rights, including by preventing violence against women

Take urgent and immediate steps to enhance the economic and social conditions of internally displaced persons in Libya, including through food security and access to medical care

Safeguard the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and internally displaced persons by protecting them from unlawful killing, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence, arbitrary detention and forced labour

Enhance efforts to protect migrant workers

Ensure a coordinated response to internal displacement and review national legislation to better align policy and law with international obligations and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Strengthen the legal protection of migrant victims of human rights violations

Adopt all necessary measures to preserve the life and security of migrants who remain detained in centres, including by preventing access to those centres by armed or criminal groups

Develop and adopt national refugee legislation based on its commitments under the Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa