Useful Kits, Newsletters, Articles and Reports

• A Guide for NGOs on the Implementation of the UN Migrant Workers' Convention
• Draft ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration: Non-binding principles and guidelines for a rights-based approach to labour migration
• The UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies and Migrant Workers: a Samizdat
• Information Kit prepared by UNESCO on the United Nations Convention on Migrants Rights
• Achieving Dignity - Campaigner's Handbook for the Migrants Rights Convention
• MIGRANT.NEWS
  
• December 18's online database containing many articles on the UN Convention and Migrant's Rights
• Working Group on the Drafting of the 1990 UN Convention
• Migrants Rights Bulletin: October-November 1999 (PDF)
• Feature Report: ILO Reviews Instruments on Protection of Migrant Workers Rights
  
• An Initial Summary of National and International Advocacy (PDF), April 2002
  

 Contacts and Links: National Campaign contact information Related Links

Previous events and statements

• Briefing on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

• On Thursday, 22 March 2007, during the Human Rights Council, the Steering Committee of the Global Campaign for the Ratification of the Migrant Workers Convention organised a panel event at the Palais des Nations on:
  
  Migrants' Rights:The Missing Link for Development
  
  Participants in the panel were:
  
  Ambassador de Alba, Mexico;
  Jorge Bustamante, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants;
  Prasad Kariyawasam, Chairperson, Committee on Migrant Workers;
  Sharon Burrow, President, International Trade Union Confederation.

• 2003 Accomplishment Report of the Steering Committee
International Migrant's Day, 18 December 2003: Statement by the Steering Committee
• Press Release by the UN on the occasion of the 20th ratification
• Joint Statement as Members of the Steering Committee for the 59th Session of the UNCHR, 2003
  
• Panel Presentation to be Held as a Parallel Event to the 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights entitled "Entry into force of the UN Convention on migrants rights", 9 April 2003 Click here to view the SC poster and invitation.
  

  Statement by Bertrand Ramcharan, UN Acting High Commissioner (PDF)
  

  Statement by Gabriela Rodriguez, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (PDF) (Spanish only)
  

  Statement by Kari Tapiola, Executive Director for Standards and Principles, ILO (PDF)
  

  Statement by Brunson McKinley, Director General of IOM
  

  Statement by Georges Malempré, Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office (PDF)
  

  Exposé par Mamounata CISSE, Secrétaire Générale Adjointe de la CISL (PDF)
  

  Joint Statement by ILO, IOM, UNHCHR and UNESCO (PDF)
  

• Steering Committee Event (PDF), July 1, 2003, United Nations, Geneva
• IOM 86th Council Session, November, 2003: A Contribution by the Steering Committee of the Global Campaign for Ratification of the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
• Panel Presentation Held as a Parallel Event to the IOM Council Meeting on December 3, 2002
  

  Statement by Mr. Gustavo Albin, Ambassador of Mexico (in Spanish)

  Statement by Mr. Alessio Bruni, UNHCHR

  Statement by Ms. Gabriela Rodriquez, Special Rapporteur (in Spanish)

  Statement by Ms. Shyla Vohra, IOM Representative

  Statement by Ms. Anna Biondi, Assistant Director ICFTU

  Remarks by Mr. Patrick Taran, ILO and Moderator (PDF)
  

• Parallel meeting at the 58th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights: UN Secret Uncovered - the 1990 Migrants' Rights Convention
• Steering Committee Statement at the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, 2001