International convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant worker and the members of th
The international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant worker and the members of their family is a text of UNO aiming at protecting the migrant workers .
A priority: human rights of the migrants
July 1st 2003, International convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant worker and the members of their family is coming into effect, after attack of the threshold of twenty ratifications in March 2003.
Today, the number of international migrants ranges between 185 and 192 million. This accounts for approximately 3% of the world population, which is equivalent to the population of Brazil. Almost all the countries are concern with the migration, as country D `emigration, of transit or immigration, even the three at the same time. The international migrations became a fundamental data of universalization.
“It is time to lean attentively on multiple dimensions of the stake which the migrations represent, because it concerns today of the hundreds of million people and with an incidence on the countries of origin, transit and destination. It is necessary for us to better include/understand the causes of human international flows and their complex relationships to the development.” General secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, extracted from his Report/ratio on the reinforcement organization, November 9th, 2002.
The Convention of the United Nations constitutes an important international treaty in the field of the protection of the rights of migrant worker. It underlines the bond between the migrations and the human rights, topic taking a capital political importance in the whole world. The goal of Convention is to protect migrant worker and the members from their family. From its existence, it constitutes a moral standard, being used of guide and springboard for the promotion of the rights of migrant worker in all the countries.
The main objective of Convention is to improve the respect of the Human rights for the migrants. The migrants are not only workers, they are above all the human beings. Convention does not create new rights for the migrants but aims at guaranteeing the equal treatment between the migrants and the nationals and the same work conditions. Convention innovates because it rests on the fundamental idea that all the migrants must be entitled to a minimum of protection. Convention recognizes that the migrants in regular situation have a legitimate right with more rights that the migrants in irregular situation but it underlines the fact that the migrants in irregular situation have, following the example all human beings, the right to see their respected basic rights.
Convention in parallel proposes to take measures for éradiquer the clandestine migratory movements, in particular while fighting against the circulation of erroneous information incentive the potential migrants to try their chance illegally, and by punishing the traffickers just as the employers of migrants in irregular situation.
Ratifications and signatures
Convention needed a minimum of twenty ratifications before coming into effect. When Guatemala and the El Salvador ratified it on March 14th, 2003, this threshold was reached. The countries having ratified Convention at the date of November 2005 are: Algeria, Azerbaïdjan, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzégovine, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Filipino, El Salvador, Senegal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tadjikistan , Eastern Timor, Turkey, Uganda and Uruguay.
In addition, it should be added that fifteen countries signed Convention. That means that their government expressed his intention to adhere to Convention. They are the following countries: Bangladesh (1998), the Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone (2000), Togo (2001), Argentinian, Kampuchea, Gabon, Indonesia, Liberia, Serbia (2004), Montenegro (2004), Benign and Guyana (2005).
Until now, the countries which ratified Conventions have primarily countries of origin of the migrants (like the Mexico, the Filipino Morocco or the ). For these countries, Convention is important because it makes it possible to protect their citizens residing abroad. In Philippines, for example, several cases of ill-treatment of Filipino workers abroad shocked the population and encouraged the government to ratify Convention. However, these countries are also countries of transit and destination of migrants, and Convention determines their responsibilities as regards protection for the rights of the migrants on their territory.
No Western country of immigration ratified Convention, whereas the majority of the migrants live in Europe and North America. The same applies to other important immigration countries, like the Australia, the countries of the Persian Gulf and the India.
Chart of the countries signatories
External bonds
- Text of Convention
- " '' 2002 International Migration Carryforward '' " published by the United Nations Economic development and social, Division of the population
- Special protractor for the rights of the migrants
- Program of UNESCO on the international migrations and policies multicultural: Project on Convention internatioanle of the rights of the migrants
- International organization of work (ILO)
- International organization of migrations (OIM)
- Migrant International Rights
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