ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 6
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6. When a migrant worker or a member of his or her family has, by a final decision, been convicted of a criminal offence and when subsequently his or her conviction has been reversed or he or she has been pardoned on the ground that a new or newly discovered fact shows conclusively that there has been a miscarriage of justice, the person who has suffered punishment as a result of such conviction shall be compensated according to law, unless it is proved that the non-disclosure of the unknown fact in time is wholly or partly attributable to that person.
Legal status
Legally binding
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
International treaty
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Movement
Person(s) affected
Families
Persons on the move
Year
1990
Paragraph type
Article
Reference
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990), Article 18, 6.