MADRID (AFP) -- A global forum on migration wrapped up Sunday in Spain with a march through the streets of Madrid by some 5,000 people to demand more rights for immigrants around the world, organizers said.

""This demonstration is a call for the elimination of barriers against migrants' rights,"" a spokeswoman for the Third World Social Forum on Migrations, Eugenia Garcia Raya, told AFP.
The demonstrators broke through a canvas wall established to represent the barriers to immigrants. A declaration was read out at the end of the march which called for a ""world without walls.""
The declaration called on the European Union to repeal a decision it took in June to allow illegal immigrants to be detained for up to 18 months and face a five-year re-entry ban.
The detention limit is longer than the current maximum period in 18 of the 27 members of the bloc. Rights groups argue it will encourage authorities to lock up more illegal immigrants.
The declaration also called on European nations to ratify a 1990 United Nations convention on the rights of migrants, which former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called ""the bill of rights for migrant workers and their families.""
The co-ordinator of the forum and the president of the non-governmental Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance, Ignacio Diaz de Aguilar, called for the creation of a UN body to defend migrants' rights.
""This would ease the vulnerability in which millions of migrants live in around the world,"" he said.
More than 2,000 representatives of associations, cultural groups and non-governmental organizations from 90 countries are taking part in the forum, which began Thursday in the Madrid suburb of Rivas Vaciamadrid.