Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families - Day of General Discussion

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Committee on Migrant Workers

Day of General Discussion on Migrant Domestic Workers, Palais Wilson, 14 October 2009 11th Session (12-16 October 2009)

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Oral presentations

Mr. Bacre Ndiaye, Director, Human Rights Council and Treaties Division, OHCHR
Mr. Ibrahim Salama, Chief Human Rights Treaties Branch, OHCHR
Ms. Liebsch, Caritas
Ms. Violet Awori, CEDAW
Ms. Cubias, CMW
Ms. Landuyt, Domestic Workers
Ms. Lucie Detsi's Testimony
ILO

Submissions

Association pour l'action sociale et le développement

Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Lebanon

Defence for Childre International Nigeria

Defensa de Niñas y Niños Internacional

Migrant Forum in Asia

Minda Teves / Written contribution

Links

The International Convention on Migrant Workers and its Committee; OHCHR Human Rights Fact Sheet No. 24 (rev.1)

Steering Committee Guide on Ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 2009

Commission on Human Rights: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants: the human rights of migrant domestic workers, E/CN.4/2004/76

Commission on Human Rights: report of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, Mission to Lebanon, E/CN.4/2006/62/Add.3

External links*

International Labour Conference, 99th session, report IV(1): Decent work for domestic workers; ILO, 2009

UNFPA, State of World Population 2006: Women and International Migration

ICMC: Strengthening Protection of Migrant Workers and their Families with international Human Rights Treaties – A Do-it.yourself-Kit

Human Rights Watch report: Maid to Order, December 6, 2005

Human Rights Watch report: Swept under the Rug, July 27, 2006

Human Rights Watch report: No Rest, January 14, 2004

Human Rights Watch report: Inside the Home, Outside the Law, December 19, 2005

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