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Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 53
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- The right of a person to submit the reason he or she should not be expelled and to have his or her case reviewed by the competent authority (art. 22, para. 4), includes the right to seek a stay of the decision of expulsion pending review of the said decision. While a stay of decision does not regularize the status of the person concerned for the time of the proceedings, it prevents the State party from expelling him or her before a final decision is rendered. In accordance with article 83 of the Convention, States parties are obliged to provide an effective remedy, including the right to review by a competent authority for migrant workers and their family members, whose rights and freedoms as recognized in the Convention have been violated. The Committee notes that migrant workers and members of their families must be given adequate time and facilities to pursue such a remedy against expulsion so as to ensure the effectiveness of their right to review. Such facilities should include the right to legal assistance and the assistance of an interpreter, if necessary, and be free of charge, if the circumstances of the case so require. The competent authority reviewing the decision of expulsion should ideally be a court. The right to appeal expulsion under article 22, paragraph 4, of the Convention may only be restricted for "compelling reasons of national security".
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 30b
- Paragraph text
- [Article 16, paragraph 7, provides for the right of migrant workers who are deprived of their liberty to communicate with the consular or diplomatic authorities of their State of origin or those of a State representing the interests thereof. It also requires State parties to:] Facilitate any communication between the person concerned and the said authorities;
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 47
- Paragraph text
- With regard to article 17, paragraph 8, the Committee considers that detention "for the purpose of verifying any infraction of provisions related to migration" covers the entire duration of administrative detention, and that, consequently, migrant workers and members of their families subjected to administrative detention shall not bear any costs arising therefrom.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 50
- Paragraph text
- The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are recognized in numerous international instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Migrant worker’s right to health 2013, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- The International Labour Organization (ILO), through various conventions and recommendations places obligations on States and certain duties to recruitment agencies, requiring them to take steps to prevent abuse and exploitation of migrant workers. It focuses on occupational health and safety of migrant workers and recommends measures to promote reunification of families, which can have a positive effect on mental health as it provides social support to migrant workers.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Global migration governance 2013, para. 66
- Paragraph text
- The European Union makes a distinction between European Union nationals, who have freedom of movement inside the whole territory and are thus not considered migrants, and "third-country nationals". Several European Union directives concerning third-country nationals have been adopted on such issues as high-skilled labour migration and family reunification, and a draft directive on seasonal workers is being negotiated. The European Union migration policies also have an external dimension through the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Protection of children from sale and sexual exploitation following humanitarian crisis due to natural disasters 2012, para. 55
- Paragraph text
- To coordinate care and support for children and their families, the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children and UNICEF have developed and promoted the use of a standard inter-agency child protection information management system (CPIMS). Although originally designed to facilitate family tracing and reunification, the system was re-designed in 2009 to support all thematic areas of child protection. To date, it has been used in 17 countries.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
Joint general comment No. 4 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of c ... 2017, para. 29
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- The Committees are of the view that the rupture of the family unit by the expulsion of one or both parents based on a breach of immigration laws related to entry or stay is disproportionate, as the sacrifice inherent in the restriction of family life and the impact on the life and development of the child is not outweighed by the advantages obtained by forcing the parent to leave the territory because of an immigration-related offence. Migrant children and their families should also be protected in cases where expulsions would constitute arbitrary interference with the right to family and private life. The Committees recommend that States provide avenues for status regularization for migrants in an irregular situation residing with their children, particularly when a child has been born or has lived in the country of destination for an extended period of time, or when return to the parent’s country of origin would be against the child’s best interests. Where the expulsion of parents is based on criminal offences, their children’s rights, including the right to have their best interests be a primary consideration and their right to be heard and have their views taken seriously, should be ensured, also taking into account the principle of proportionality and other human rights principles and standards.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Joint general comment No. 3 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 22 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the general principles regarding the human rights ... 2017, para. 55a
- Paragraph text
- [States that have not yet done so are encouraged to ratify or accede to:] The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, including by making the binding declarations under articles 76 and 77;
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Joint general comment No. 4 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of c ... 2017, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- The Committees are of the view that the rupture of the family unit by the expulsion of one or both parents based on a breach of immigration laws related to entry or stay is disproportionate, as the sacrifice inherent in the restriction of family life and the impact on the life and development of the child is not outweighed by the advantages obtained by forcing the parent to leave the territory because of an immigration-related offence. Migrant children and their families should also be protected in cases where expulsions would constitute arbitrary interference with the right to family and private life. The Committees recommend that States provide avenues for status regularization for migrants in an irregular situation residing with their children, particularly when a child has been born or has lived in the country of destination for an extended period of time, or when return to the parent’s country of origin would be against the child’s best interests. Where the expulsion of parents is based on criminal offences, their children’s rights, including the right to have their best interests be a primary consideration and their right to be heard and have their views taken seriously, should be ensured, also taking into account the principle of proportionality and other human rights principles and standards.
- Organe
- Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Vulnerabilities of children to sale, trafficking and other forms of exploitation in situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis 2017, para. 23
- Paragraph text
- In the absence of safe and regular migration channels, as well as permanent and accessible mechanisms for children and their families to access long-term regular migration status or residence permits, children are forced to search for precarious alternatives that increase their exposure to risks of sale, trafficking and other forms of exploitation.
- Organe
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Regional human rights treaties protect all migrants against refoulement and collective expulsion. However, the procedural safeguards in individual expulsion proceedings in regional human rights treaties apply only to migrants who are lawfully within the territory of a State party. The rights protected in the European Social Charter apply to "foreigners only insofar as they are nationals of other Contracting Parties lawfully resident or working regularly within the territory of the Contracting Party concerned", or to migrant workers and their families "lawfully within their territories". The opinions of the European Committee of Social Rights, however, have held that the European Social Charter also applies to vulnerable categories of undocumented migrant children. Moreover, the right to education is guaranteed to all migrant children, regardless of their migration status, in all regional human rights systems.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 61e
- Paragraph text
- [Article 9 (2) of the Convention requires States parties to ensure that women and men have equal rights to confer their nationality to their children. The non-fulfilment by States parties of their obligations under article 9 (2) places children at risk of statelessness. Nationality laws that grant nationality through paternal descent alone infringe article 9 (2) and may render children stateless if:] The father has been unwilling to fulfil administrative steps to confer his nationality or acquire proof of nationality for his children, for example if he has abandoned the family.
- Organe
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 73
- Paragraph text
- The Committee considers that access to urgent medical care must be ensured to all migrant workers on the basis of equality of treatment with nationals and thus on a non-discriminatory basis. Although medical care need not necessarily be free of charge, equality of treatment requires that the same rules for payment of fees or exemption from payment apply to migrant workers and members of their families as to nationals. States parties should prohibit the charging of excessive fees from migrant workers in an irregular situation or requiring immediate payment or proof of payment before the service is delivered. Urgent medical care should never be withheld due to the inability to pay. States parties should also ensure that migrant workers and members of their families are provided with information on the medical care provided and information about their health rights. States parties should also ensure that doctors and health professionals are provided with culturally sensitive training regarding health care for migrant workers and members of their families.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 74
- Paragraph text
- Article 28 prohibits the refusal of such medical care to migrant workers because of an irregularity with regard to their stay and employment. States parties should not use health care as an instrument of immigration control, which would effectively prevent migrant workers in an irregular situation from contacting public health care providers out of fear of deportation. Toward this end, States parties shall not require public health institutions to report or otherwise share data on the migration status of a patient to immigration authorities, and health care providers should also not be required to do so. Moreover, States parties shall not conduct immigration enforcement operations on or near facilities providing medical care, as this would limit migrant workers and members of their families from accessing such care.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 21c
- Paragraph text
- [Migrant workers in an irregular situation, particularly women, are at increased risk of ill-treatment and other forms of violence at the hands of both private actors, including employers, and State officials which includes sexual violence, beatings, threats, psychological abuse, and denial of access to medical care, for example. Under article 16, paragraph 2, States parties have an obligation to protect all migrant workers and members of their families against violence, physical injury, threats and intimidation, whether by public officials or by private individuals, groups or institutions. This obligation requires States parties to:] Prosecute and punish those responsible with appropriate punishments;
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 24
- Paragraph text
- The Committee considers that crossing the border of a country in an unauthorized manner or without proper documentation, or overstaying a permit of stay does not constitute a crime. Criminalizing irregular entry into a country exceeds the legitimate interest of States parties to control and regulate irregular migration, and leads to unnecessary detention. While irregular entry and stay may constitute administrative offences, they are not crimes per se against persons, property or national security.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 32
- Paragraph text
- Article 16, paragraph 8, provides for the right of all migrant workers and members of their families who are deprived of their liberty by arrest or detention to take proceedings before a court, in order that the court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of their detention. If the court finds that the detention is unlawful, it must order the release of the detained migrant worker. The Committee considers that mandatory detention of migrant workers and members of their families in an irregular situation is incompatible with article 16, paragraph 8, if the possibility of judicial review is confined to a formal assessment of whether the migrant worker concerned entered the State party without a valid entry permit, without the possibility of release if the detention is incompatible with article 16, paragraph 4.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 26
- Paragraph text
- In the Committee's view, any custodial or non-custodial measure restricting the right to liberty must be exceptional and always based on a detailed and individualized assessment. Such assessment should consider the necessity and appropriateness of any restriction of liberty, including whether it is proportional to the objective to be achieved. The principle of proportionality requires States parties to detain migrant workers only as a last resort, and to give preference to less coercive measures, especially non-custodial measures, whenever such measures suffice to achieve the objective pursued. In all such cases, the least intrusive and restrictive measure possible in each individual case should be applied.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 34
- Paragraph text
- Article 16, paragraph 8, of the Convention provides for the right of migrant workers attending such proceedings to an interpreter, if necessary, without cost to them, if they cannot understand or speak the language used. In the Committee's view, States parties should take effective measures to ensure that all migrant workers held in migration detention centres, including those who opt for voluntary repatriation, are properly informed of their rights in a language they understand, especially with regard to their rights to consular assistance, to challenge the lawfulness of their detention and/or to release, to request asylum and to receive information about protection measures available to victims or witnesses of trafficking in persons.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Article 7 prohibits both direct and indirect discrimination against migrant workers. In line with the jurisprudence of other international human rights mechanisms, indirect discrimination against migrant workers occurs when a law, policy or practice appears neutral at face value, but has a disproportionate impact on their rights. For example, requiring birth certificates for school enrolment may disproportionately affect migrant workers in an irregular situation, who often do not possess, or have been denied, such certificates.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 21e
- Paragraph text
- [Migrant workers in an irregular situation, particularly women, are at increased risk of ill-treatment and other forms of violence at the hands of both private actors, including employers, and State officials which includes sexual violence, beatings, threats, psychological abuse, and denial of access to medical care, for example. Under article 16, paragraph 2, States parties have an obligation to protect all migrant workers and members of their families against violence, physical injury, threats and intimidation, whether by public officials or by private individuals, groups or institutions. This obligation requires States parties to:] Provide human rights training for public officials; and
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside Their Country of Origin 2005, para. 93
- Paragraph text
- The best-interests assessment determination, prior to a decision to resettle, needs also to take into account other factors such as: the envisaged duration of legal or other obstacles to a child's return to his or her home country; the child's right to preserve his or her identity, including nationality and name (art. 8); the child's age, sex, emotional state, educational and family background; continuity/discontinuity of care in the host country; the desirability of continuity in a child's upbringing and to the child's ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background (art. 20); the right of the child to preserve his or her family relations (art. 8) and related short, medium and long-term possibilities of family reunion either in the home, host, or resettlement country. Unaccompanied or separated children should never be resettled to a third country if this would undermine or seriously hamper future reunion with their family.
- Organe
- Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Année
- 2005
Paragraphe
Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families 2013, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- Under article 16, paragraph 6, the guarantees of certain rights of migrant workers and members of their families in custody and pretrial detention are applicable to anyone suspected of committing or having committed a crime.
- Organe
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
The right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers 2010, para. 39
- Paragraph text
- Some replies to the questionnaire indicated that there is a lack of information and awareness among migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker populations about their rights, specifically those that safeguard their right to education. Implicit in this is what it means to make informed school and educational decisions. It is essential, therefore, to provide information and logistical support to migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking populations to strengthen their capacity in this regard. Activities might include, for example, home visits to low-income and migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking families, “education booths” in shopping malls, information fairs and hotlines in relevant migrant languages.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Education
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 47
- Paragraph text
- Migrant domestic workers are, like other migrants, often unprotected by worker rights. They are subject to extreme abuses, including forced labour and trafficking and gender-based violence. They may be deprived of food and sleep, denied medical treatment and prohibited from leaving their workplace. Zainab Yusuf, a Kenyan worker trafficked to Saudi Arabia, had to work 21 hours a day cleaning and caring for her employers' seven children. She could not leave the house or contact her family, and faced ongoing sexual harassment and physical abuse from her employer and his sons. Under such conditions, domestic workers have no opportunity to peacefully assemble or to associate.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Migration and the right to adequate housing 2010, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Article 6 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Migration for Employment Convention (Revised) of 1949 requires parties to the Convention to apply, without discrimination in respect of nationality, race, religion or sex, to immigrants lawfully within its territory, treatment no less favourable than that which it applies to its own nationals in respect of accommodation. Similarly, the ILO Workers' Housing Recommendation of 1961 calls upon the competent authorities to pay particular attention to the particular problem of housing of migrant workers and their families and to ensure as rapidly as possible equality of treatment between migrant workers and national workers in that respect.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Migration and the right to adequate housing 2010, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Article 5 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination sets out the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour or national or ethnic origin, to equality in the enjoyment of the right to housing. Article 43 of the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families requires States to ensure the same treatment regarding access of documented migrants to housing as is afforded to nationals, including social housing schemes and protection against exploitation in respect of rent. Moreover, article 64 requires States to promote sound, equitable and humane conditions in connection with international migration and to pay due regard not only to labour needs and resources, but also to the social, economic, cultural and other needs of migrant workers.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Migration and the right to adequate housing 2010, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- In its concluding observations of 25 May 2007 on Egypt (CMW/C/EGY/CO/1), the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families expressed its concern about reports that some migrant workers suffer from discrimination, inter alia, in the area of housing, and encouraged the State to ensure that the rights provided for in the Convention are enjoyed without discrimination. The Committee expresses similar concerns with regard to non-Arab migrants in the Syrian Arab Republic in its concluding observations of 2 May 2008 (CMW/C/SYR/CO/1).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
The right to adequate housing in disaster relief efforts 2011, para. 53
- Paragraph text
- As mentioned above, the earthquake in Haiti highlighted the largely inadequate housing conditions and the precariousness and insecure tenure of informal settlements. The international community, by focusing on people displaced in camps, and by offering conditions superior to those enjoyed by many Haitians, inadvertently made camps attractive places. While systematic reconstruction accompanied by the provision of services in neighbourhoods of return is not forthcoming, there is thus little reason for poor families to leave the camps where housing and services are provided free of charge. Although understandable from an emergency perspective, a narrow focus on the plight of internally displaced persons and temporary solutions becomes, amidst a difficult socio-economic and tenure context, an obstacle to long-term recovery, and in some cases may result in further development problems. Such situations are bound to become more frequent, with increased urbanization, much of which occurs in an unplanned manner (see A/64/255, paras. 13-21).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe