There are three complementary universal instruments that provide the necessary legal framework not only for protection of migrants human rights including labour rights, but also for national migration policy and international cooperation to regulate migration"; and they are listed below.

 

1) The Convention recognizes the human rights of migrant workers and promotes their access to justice as well as to humane and lawful working and living conditions. It provides guidance on the elaboration of national migration policies and for international cooperation based on respect for human rights and the rule of law. It sets out provisions to combat abuse and exploitation of migrant workers and members of their families throughout the migration process.

The Convention is based upon

• the World Conferences on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993,

• on Population and Development in Cairo,

• on Women in Beijing in 1994,

• on Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995,

• and on Racism and Xenophobia (WCAR) in 2001 in Durban.

The recommendations of all of these Conferences called for ratification of the 1990 Convention. An entire chapter of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population Program of Action laid out a comprehensive blueprint for national and global policy on international migration; these elements remain the best and broadest global approach to date.

The ICRMW explicitly applies the rights elaborated in the International Bill of Rights (Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the 1966 International Covenants on Political and Civil Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) to the specific situation of migrant workers and members of their families.

Other instruments have similarly done so for other groups (e.g., women, children persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples). This makes the ICRMW a comprehensive instrument of legal guidance for States in the formulation of migration policy.

The complementary ILO Conventions on migration for employment (C-97 and C-143) provide specific standards regarding migrant worker employment and occupation.

2)

The ILO Migration for Employment Convention No. 97 provides foundations for equal treatment between nationals and regular migrants in recruitment procedures, living and working conditions, and access to justice, tax and social security. It sets out details for contract conditions, participation of migrants in job training or promotion, provisions for family reunification, and appeals against unjustified termination of employment or expulsion, as well as other measures to regulate the entire migration process.

The ILO Migrant Workers Convention No. 143 provides specific guidance regarding treatment of irregular migration and facilitating integration of migrants in host societies.

Article 1 establishes the obligation of ratifying States to "respect the basic human rights of all migrant workers," independent of their legal situation in the host State. Its Part II details standards for integration of long term migrant workers.

For ILO these two conventions together with the 1990 Convention, comprise an International Charter on Migration, covering not only human rights aspects, but reinforcing international intergovernmental consultation and cooperation on migration management.

Eleven Member States of the European Union have ratified one or both ILO Conventions on migration for employment/migrant workers. They thus established legal foundations for labour migration policy and practice based on equality of treatment for foreign workers in regular situations, protection of migrant workers labour and social security rights, and international cooperation.

Legal studies conducted in nearly a dozen European countries have shown that existing legislation in most is already largely in accord with the terms of the ICRMW. Several studies concluded that resistance to ratification may be more a matter of political posture than overcoming legal or juridical obstacles.

3) EUROPEAN UNION

The Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM) represents the coherent and comprehensive migration policy of the EU, therefore it should be considered and promoted as the overarching framework of the EU External Migration Policy, based on genuine partnership with non-EU countries and addressing migration and mobility issues in a comprehensive and balanced manner. The GAMM should respond to the opportunities and challenges that the EU migration policy faces, while at the same time supporting partners to address their own migration and mobility priorities, within their appropriate regional context and framework.

The GAMM should be migrant-centred. In essence, migration governance is not about 'flows', 'stocks' and 'routes', it is about people. In order to be relevant, effective and sustainable, policies must be designed to respond to the aspirations and problems of the people concerned. Migrants should, therefore, be empowered by gaining access to all the information they need about their opportunities, rights and obligations.

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How to receive migrants: Information and training for public workers representatives with financial support from the European Union EU.

Projet Euro-Med Migration: Conférence finale Marseille / 18-19 septembre 2012 / Coordination: Fédération Interco CFDT : Paris France ateliers multillangues, avec la participation de EPSU, PSI, Cimade, NEA, FSESP, CESE,  C.E.S.E (comité économique social et environnemental français).

Paca & Marseille 2012, traduction en anglais français allemand grec italien espagnol italien portugais hongrois polonais.

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