Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Belize and Ghana The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its twenty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on Belize and Ghana.…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Uruguay, El Salvador, Mali and the Philippines The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its twentieth session after adopting its concluding observations and…

GENEVA (7 April 2014) –United Nations experts have issued a renewed appeal to all countries to sign up to a landmark treaty on the rights of migrant workers that came into force some 10 years ago. “Forty-seven countries have ratified the treaty but that number is far too low given the abuse and…

GENEVA (2 October 2013) – Migrants are too often regarded as commodities or economic and political problems instead of human beings, a United Nations Committee has said in an appeal to all countries to join an international treaty that protects the rights of migrant workers. “The International…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Burkina Faso and Morocco; and Annual Report to the General Assembly The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its nineteenth session after adopting its…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Colombia, Bolivia and Azerbaijan The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its eighteenth session after adopting its concluding observations and…

Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Paraguay and Tajikistan The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on 27 April concluded its sixteenth session after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on…

Hears Address by High Commissioner for Human Rights and Statement by Human Rights Centre of Tajikistan on the Situation in Tajikistan The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families this morning opened its sixteenth session, during which the…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Argentina, Chile and Guatemala The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its fifteenth session after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on…

GENEVA – A United Nations expert committee on migrants’ rights has welcomed the recent adoption by the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the International Convention on Domestic Workers, a landmark legal instrument aimed at protecting the rights and improving the conditions of life of…