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ICMC expresses concerns of migrants in Ecuador
to UN Committee on Migrant Workers in Geneva, April 24
In consultation with ICMC members in Ecuador,
Peru and other countries in the region, ICMC presented
observations and concerns on behalf of migrant workers and their
families in Ecuador to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers in
Geneva at its sixth session, April 23 - 27, 2007 in Geneva.
The Committee was conducting the first
of two sessions to examine the report submitted by the government
of Ecuador describing both the conditions of migrant workers
and their families in that country and services it provides for
its own nationals working outside of Ecuador. Like 35 other States
that have ratified the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and the Members of their
Families (which is the 7th of the 7 international human rights
treaties), Ecuador is obligated to submit and include in such
a report to the Committee, "the legislative, judicial and
administrative measures they have taken to give effect to the
provisions" of the Convention. The Committee will continue
its review of Ecuador's report and migrants at a second session
later this year.
As in other sessions of the UN Migrant
Workers Committee, ICMC called the Committee's attention
to perspectives that ICMC and it members have gained from their
actual presence and work with the affected migrants. Prior to
this particular session, ICMC surveyed members in Ecuador and
throughout the region, as well as countries in which migrants
from Ecuador work, inviting reports and issues to present to the
Committee. As described below, three ICMC members provided detailed
information in response, providing the basis of two formal statements
that ICMC presented to the Committee on the record on April 24th.
To view the two statements presented
by ICMC:
- ICMC statement prepared in consultation
with the Departamento Pastoral Movilidad Humana - Catholic
Bishops Conference of Peru, ICMC's member in Peru;
- For the statement entitled Shadow Report of Ecuador's Adherence
to the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights
of Migrant Workers and their Families, which was prepared
by a group of 7 non-government organizations, including ICMC
members Departamento de Movilidad Humana - Catholic Bishops
Conference of Ecuador and Catholic Relief Services:
For more information about ICMC's testimony
at other sessions and the work of the UN Committee on Migrant
Workers:
- Statements presented by ICMC to the UN Committee on Migrant
Workers at its two most recent sessions, regarding migrants
and their families in or from Mexico
and Egypt.
- UN Committee
on Migrant Workers, located on the website of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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