8 April 2024
Welcome to the eleventh session of the course on International Human Rights. Today we are going to look at how the rights of migrant workers and their families are set out in the United Nations International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families are formally addressed, by he Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW). It has 14 members each serving a four-year term. It meets two times a year and its first session of 2024 has not yet been scheduled.
The Convention is one of the most recent of the main human rights conventions. It was adopted in December 1990 and entered into force on 1 July 2003. It took a long time to enter into force because almost no recipients of migrant workers in developed countries ratified the Convention.
As stated on its website, The Committee is composed of 14 independent experts. As can be seen, only one country (Turkey) from “Western Europe” has a member on the Committee and there are no Asia-Pacific country experts either.
The current membership of the Committee is:
|
Name |
State |
Term expires |
|
Mauritania |
2026 |
|
|
Argentina |
2024 |
|
|
Morocco |
2026 |
|
|
Mr. Edgar CORZO SOSA (Chair) |
Mexico |
2024 |
|
Ms. Fatimata DIALLO (Vice-Chair) |
Senegal |
2024 |
|
Ms. Jasminka DZUMHUR(Vice-Chair) |
Bosnia
and Herzegovina |
2024 |
|
Albania |
2024 |
|
|
Algeria |
2026 |
|
|
Guatemala |
2026 |
|
|
Niger |
2024 |
|
|
Burkina
Faso |
2026 |
|
|
Mr. Azad TAGHI-ZADA (Vice-Chair) |
Azerbaijan |
2026 |
|
Turkey |
2026 |
|
|
Benin |
2024 |
In geographical distribution terms this means:
The Secretariat for the Committee is now with the OHCHR in Geneva,
Like other Committees, CRC makes provision for information from NGOs.