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).

IN the past week, a judge sentenced four migrant workers to jail for failing to have the proper documentation entitling them to work in Ireland.