AS the Global Forum on Migration concludes its meeting in Brussels, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) would like to restate the importance of protection and rights for migrant workers and their families and again calls on Ireland and other EU member states to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families (1990).

MORE people are reporting racist incidents such as verbal abuse or assaults, according to an independent expert body which receives an average of 50 such reports in any six-month period.

THE Progressive Democrats refuses to accept non-EU citizens as party members despite the fact that all resident immigrants, including asylum seekers and refugees, can vote in local elections.