Practices by Stakeholder 6

Advocacy with States and private sector actors to create conditions for migrants’ safe movements

Civil society can advocate with States and employers for conditions that facilitate migrants’ movement to safety. They can also directly intervene to support migrants to move. Actions that civil society can undertake include:

• Advocating with host States and States of transit to keep borders open on humanitarian grounds;
• Advocating with employers to provide conditions that enable migrants to flee to safety, including access to documents and outstanding wages and contact with consular authorities;
• Fostering understanding and respect among other stakeholders for migrants’ preferences and choices with regard to movements;
• Providing direct assistance for migrants to move, including transport and temporary shelters en route;
• Establishing or activating arrangements with national or local authorities in the host State to access detention centers to assess the specific needs of detained migrants and provide them with assistance, including evacuation, when possible.