Addressing the UN Human Rights Council on 3 June 2009,United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay affirmed that promoting a rights-based approach to migration will be one of the priorities of her office for the 2010-2011 period. Ms. Pillay stated that policies against irregular migration that focus on border control, return, and at times criminalisation, have not only been ineffective but in some cases have posed further threats to the rights of those involved. She stressed that government measures, such as the imposition of fines on private individuals renting their houses to irregular migrants; the imposition of a duty to report on health professionals; the criminalisation of the provision of aid and assistance to irregular migrants, can have unintended negative implications on migrants' labour rights, and their access to housing, health, education
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