The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 29
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- Having legal status does not ensure workers can exercise their fundamental rights. Most temporary or circular migration programmes structurally deny or inhibit rights to assembly and association and leave workers at the mercy of employers. Two such programmes are the Middle East kafala and United States guest-worker programmes. In many Middle East countries (such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar), this hyper-rigid system ties a migrant worker's presence in the country to a visa sponsored by a citizen. Workers' ability to reside, work or even leave the country is subject to the approval and whims of a migrant's sponsor, who has near total control over the worker's existence. Nearly the same is true in United States guest-worker programmes, where visas are tied to specific employers. From a legal standpoint, these States have delegated oversight, control and responsibility for foreign nationals to private companies and individuals. Such devolution of responsibility has led to gross abuses and denial of fundamental rights.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/385, para. 29.
- Paragraph number
- 29
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