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Archives: Migrant Rights

International Protection of Refugees and Migrants

• Joint Statement (pdf) to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination from ICMC, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, and the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quaker United Nations Office) (1 March 2004)
  
• ICMC do-it-yourself kit on How to Strengthen Protection of Migrant Workers and Members of their Families with International Human Rights Treaties (January 2004)
  
• ICMC Contribution to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (January 2004)
  William Canny, ICMC Secretary General, made a submission (pdf) to the UNECE European Population Forum 2004 on Population Challenges and Policy Responses.
  
• 2003 Watershed year for protection of migrant workers (December 2003)
  Be sure to read the December 2003 statement (pdf) by the Steering Committee for the Global Campaign for Ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. ICMC is a member of the Steering Committee.
  
• 20th ratification of the 1990 Migrants Rights Convention (December 2002)