Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States In his 2007 State of the Union Address, President Bush called for legislation creating a legal and orderly path for foreign workers to enter our country to work on a temporary basis.
Good Practices To Protect Women Migrant Workers High Level Government Meeting of Countries of Employment, Ministry of Labor, Royal Thai Government and UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia, Bangkok, 2006.
NGO Statement on the Girl Child & Migration United Nations Economic and Social Council, Commission on the Status of Women, December 2006, At the 51st session of the Commission for Status of Women (CSW), international NGOs, draw attention to the “elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child,” particularly the migrant girl child..
Ratification of the Migrants’ Rights Convention, Bangladesh, Korea and New Zealand The Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN) recently published a report entitled “Promoting a Process to Encourage Ratification of the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Family: Bangladesh, Korea and New Zealand”. This report is prepared in the framework of UNESCO’s activities to promote the ratification of the International Convention on Migrants’ Rights (ICMR) in countries in the Asia Pacific region, as part of its commitment to ensuring the human rights of migrants.