CERD recommendations 2024, paragraph 48

 Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, and the recommendations made by the Human Rights Committee, the Committee recommends that the State party review and repeal any legislative provision that discriminates against migrant groups and that limits access to rights for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, with a view to ensuring that its legal framework fully complies with the Convention and relevant international standards. It also recommends that the State party facilitate access to asylum procedures and to legal aid without discrimination and ensure the individual assessment of asylum applications, sufficient procedural guarantees and access to effective remedies, including against refoulement. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt all measures necessary to ensure that all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who have gone missing are accommodated in places covered by the State party’s child protection system and effectively protect them against trafficking. It further recommends that the State party revise the “no recourse to public funds” rule and ensure that it does not expose migrant households to a higher risk of poverty and precarity.