NGO Input to the Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Migrants

Women’s Refugee Commission collaborated with the Center for the Human Rights of Children, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and submitted this input in response to the call for submissions made by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants to inform the forthcoming report to the 47th session of the Human Rights Council regarding the use of “pushback” practices and their impact on the human rights of migrants.

The input focuses specifically upon the implementation of pushback policies by the United States Government along the border between the United States and Mexico and the impact those policies have had, and continue to have, on the rights of migrant children.