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Towards a strong Human Rights-based ILO
Convention 189 for all Domestic Workers!
From historic milestone to immediate Ratification!
The RESPECT Network Europe welcomes this initiative of SOLIDAR to organise this “Domestic Workers tour” in Brussels marking the 4th World day for Decent Work, calling on Members of the European Parliament and Governments Representative to support and promote the ratification and the implementation of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention (C 189).
We appreciate SOLIDAR’s acknowledgment of the RESPECT Network’s leading role in Europe in the campaign for the rights of migrant domestic workers. We are here to continue the unfinished task of intensifying the campaign for the adoption and ratification of the ILO Convention 189. RESPECT is a European network of Migrant Domestic Workers’ organisation, trade unions, NGOs and supporters that campaign for the rights of all Migrant Domestic Workers in private households, both women and men, regardless of immigration status.
The RESPECT network was set up in 19981 as a response to the conditions of exploitation and widespread violation of rights of Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) coming from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, and it remains committed to achieving long lasting changes in the living and working conditions of MDWs in Europe and internationally. We would like here to acknowledge the active participation of SOLIDAR itself in the founding of RESPECT and count on our continuing partnership.
Transnational Migrant Platform Press Release - Migrant Rights in Focus Transnational Migrant Platform – Marking International Migrant Rights Day, 2010Press Release: Amsterdam December 18th, 2010 Amsterdam – Marking the 20th anniversary of the UN Migrant Workers Convention, migrant communities in many parts world were joined by trade unions and human rights organizations, as well as by the United Nations (UN) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). December 18th has become a significant milestone in the political calendar ever since the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families-more popularly referred to as the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC) - on that date in 1990. In an era, when so many governments have been making short-cuts and outright denial of the rights of migrants, it is important that we hear other voices upholding migrant rights as human rights. Pinpointing a disturbing tendency towards the criminalisation of irregular migrants, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has highlighted the yawning gap between governments’ knowledge of migrant rights standards and their practice. Pinpointing in her Statement , that this Convention is the least ratified of the UN Conventions, Pillay also commented: “We know what is needed to protect the human rights of migrant workers and members of their families, whatever their status – and we know what it takes to promote sound, equitable, humane and lawful conditions of migration. All that is clearly laid out in the Migrant Workers Convention…states also know this, because 20 years ago they came together to codify these essential elements into a legally binding treaty.”
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