MIGRANT WORKERS: Committee holds Day of General Discussion

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Summary: The Committee on Migrant Workers held a General Day of Discussion on 19 September.

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families held a Day of General Discussion on "Migrant workers in irregular status and their family members."

Four objectives

The day had four objectives:

  • Facilitate the work of the Committee in its recommendations to States parties
  • Clarify the scope of the Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
  • Assist the Committee to adopt a General Comment on migrant workers in irregular status
  • Pay more attention to the situation of migrant workers.

Presentations were made b​​y Craig Mokhiber, Chief, Development, Economic and Social Issues Branch, of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ryszard Cholewinski of the International Labour Organisation, Ahmadou Tall, Committee member, and Vincent Chetail of the Institute of International Studies and Development in Geneva.

The discussion was then divided into two panels, respectively on the challenges in the protection of migrant workers in irregular status and their family members and on the protection of the rights of undocumented migrant workers and their family members in practice.

 

Further Information

pdf: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11393&L...

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Article 30: Children of minorities or of indigenous peoples
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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