Ireland urged to back migrant rights charter

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).

This would go a long way to ensuring maximum opportunities and minimising the risks of labour mobility at a global level, one of the key themes of the forum in Brussels.

Failure of countries to ratify the UN convention sends a powerful negative message of a reluctance to prioritise and recognise the role of states in protecting migrant workers and their families.