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ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. undefined
- Paragraph text
- Before their departure, or at the latest at the time of their admission to the State of employment, migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right to be fully informed by the State of origin or the State of employment, as appropriate, of all conditions applicable to their admission and particularly those concerning their stay and the remunerated activities in which they may engage as well as of the requirements they must satisfy in the State of employment and the authority to which they must address themselves for any modification of those conditions.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 5b
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- (b) The election of the four additional members of the Committee shall be held in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the present article, following the entry into force of the Convention for the forty-first State Party. The term of two of the additional members elected on this occasion shall expire at the end of two years; the names of these members shall be chosen by lot by the Chairman of the meeting of States Parties;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. undefined
- Paragraph text
- The rights of migrant workers and members of their families provided for in the present Convention may not be renounced. It shall not be permissible to exert any form of pressure upon migrant workers and members of their families with a view to their relinquishing or foregoing any of the said rights. It shall not be possible to derogate by contract from rights recognized in the present Convention. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure that these principles are respected.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 2007, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to relevant International Labour Organization conventions and to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, as well as all human rights treaties that contribute to the protection of the rights of women migrant workers;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
The rights of the child 2012, para. 44e
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- [Calls upon all States to include, within the overall context of policies and programmes for the realization of the rights of the child, for all children within their jurisdiction, the relevant provisions for the realization of these rights for indigenous children, in particular:] To strengthen efforts towards poverty eradication and to adopt, implement and/or strengthen, in coordination with indigenous peoples, appropriate policies aimed at ensuring the right to an adequate standard of living for indigenous children and their families, along with equal access to quality and affordable services, especially health, nutrition, education, welfare, social protection, safe drinking water and sanitation and other services that are essential for the child's well-being and, in this regard, to pay particular attention to the most vulnerable children and to those living under especially difficult circumstances;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Families
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS 2001, para. 68
- Paragraph text
- By 2003, evaluate the economic and social impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and develop multisectoral strategies to address the impact at the individual, family, community and national levels; develop and accelerate the implementation of national poverty eradication strategies to address the impact of HIV/AIDS on household income, livelihoods and access to basic social services, with special focus on individuals, families and communities severely affected by the epidemic; review the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS at all levels of society, especially on women and the elderly, particularly in their role as caregivers, and in families affected by HIV/AIDS, and address their special needs; and adjust and adapt economic and social development policies, including social protection policies, to address the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic growth, provision of essential economic services, labour productivity, government revenues, and deficit-creating pressures on public resources;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2001
Paragraph
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 82a
- Paragraph text
- Promote and protect the rights of women workers and take action to remove structural and legal barriers as well as stereotypical attitudes to gender equality at work, addressing, inter alia, gender bias in recruitment; working conditions; occupational segregation and harassment; discrimination in social protection benefits; women's occupational health and safety; unequal career opportunities and inadequate sharing, by men, of family responsibilities;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2000
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. undefined
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- For the purposes of the present Convention the term ''members of the family" refers to persons married to migrant workers or having with them a relationship that, according to applicable law, produces effects equivalent to marriage, as well as their dependent children and other dependent persons who are recognized as members of the family by applicable legislation or applicable bilateral or multilateral agreements between the States concerned.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. a
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- [For the purposes of the present Convention, migrant workers and members of their families:] (a) Are considered as documented or in a regular situation if they are authorized to enter, to stay and to engage in a remunerated activity in the State of employment pursuant to the law of that State and to international agreements to which that State is a party;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall take measures that they deem appropriate and that fall within their competence to facilitate the reunification of migrant workers with their spouses or persons who have with the migrant worker a relationship that, according to applicable law, produces effects equivalent to marriage, as well as with their minor dependent unmarried children.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- 1. Migrant workers shall have the right to transfer their earnings and savings, in particular those funds necessary for the support of their families, from the State of employment to their State of origin or any other State. Such transfers shall be made in conformity with procedures established by applicable legislation of the State concerned and in conformity with applicable international agreements.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 3
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- 3. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that migrant workers are not deprived of any rights derived from this principle by reason of any irregularity in their stay or employment. In particular, employers shall not be relieved of any legal or contractual obligations, nor shall their obligations be limited in any manner by reason of such irregularity.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- 2. Migrant workers who in the State of employment are allowed freely to choose their remunerated activity shall neither be regarded as in an irregular situation nor shall they lose their authorization of residence by the mere fact of the termination of their remunerated activity prior to the expiration of their work permits or similar authorizations.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1
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- 1. In the case of death of a migrant worker or dissolution of marriage, the State of employment shall favourably consider granting family members of that migrant worker residing in that State on the basis of family reunion an authorization to stay; the State of employment shall take into account the length of time they have already resided in that State.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2b
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- [2. For any migrant worker a State of employment may:] (b) Restrict free choice of remunerated activity in accordance with its legislation concerning recognition of occupational qualifications acquired outside its territory. However, States Parties concerned shall endeavour to provide for recognition of such qualifications.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2
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- 2. States of employment shall take all adequate and effective measures to eliminate employment in their territory of migrant workers in an irregular situation, including, whenever appropriate, sanctions on employers of such workers. The rights of migrant workers vis-à-vis their employer arising from employment shall not be impaired by these measures.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- 1. Frontier workers, as defined in article 2, paragraph 2 (a), of the present Convention, shall be entitled to the rights provided for in part IV that can be applied to them by reason of their presence and work in the territory of the State of employment, taking into account that they do not have their habitual residence in that State.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
New York Declaration For Refugees and Migrants 2016, para. 57
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- We will consider facilitating opportunities for safe, orderly and regular migration, including, as appropriate, employment creation, labour mobility at all skills levels, circular migration, family reunification and education-related opportunities. We will pay particular attention to the application of minimum labour standards for migrant workers regardless of their status, as well as to recruitment and other migration-related costs, remittance flows, transfers of skills and knowledge and the creation of employment opportunities for young people.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2g (i)
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- [For the purposes of the present Convention:] 2. (g) The term "specified-employment worker" refers to a migrant worker: (i) Who has been sent by his or her employer for a restricted and defined period of time to a State of employment to undertake a specific assignment or duty; or
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2g (ii)
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- [For the purposes of the present Convention:] 2. (g) The term "specified-employment worker" refers to a migrant worker: (ii) Who engages for a restricted and defined period of time in work that requires professional, commercial, technical or other highly specialized skill; or
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. i
- Paragraph text
- Considering the situation of vulnerability in which migrant workers and members of their families frequently-find themselves owing, among other things, to their absence from their State of origin and to the difficulties they may encounter arising from their presence in the State of employment,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- [For the purposes of the present Convention:] 1. The term "migrant worker" refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2a
- Paragraph text
- [For the purposes of the present Convention:] 2. (a) The term "frontier worker" refers to a migrant worker who retains his or her habitual residence in a neighbouring State to which he or she normally returns every day or at least once a week;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. f
- Paragraph text
- [The present Convention shall not apply to:] (f) Seafarers and workers on an offshore installation who have not been admitted to take up residence and engage in a remunerated activity in the State of employment.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. b
- Paragraph text
- [For the purposes of the present Convention, migrant workers and members of their families:] (b) Are considered as non-documented or in an irregular situation if they do not comply with the conditions provided for in subparagraph (a) of the present article.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties shall ensure respect for the cultural identity of migrant workers and members of their families and shall not prevent them from maintaining their cultural links with their State of origin.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. undefined
- Paragraph text
- Upon the termination of their stay in the State of employment, migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right to transfer their earnings and savings and, in accordance with the applicable legislation of the States concerned, their personal effects and belongings.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1a
- Paragraph text
- [1. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right to be informed by the State of origin, the State of employment or the State of transit as the case may be concerning:] (a) Their rights arising out of the present Convention;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- 1. Migrant workers in the State of employment shall have the right freely to choose their remunerated activity, subject to the following restrictions or conditions.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. undefined
- Paragraph text
- Migrant workers and members of their families who are documented or in a regular situation in the State of employment shall enjoy the rights set forth in the present part of the Convention in addition to those set forth in part III.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1990
Paragraph