Statement of the International Catholic Migration Commission to the un committee on Migrant Workers
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Statement of the International Catholic Migration Commission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers Delivered during the Ninth Session, 25 November 2008 For discussion of issues and questions regarding The first report to the Committee by the Philippines (CMW/C/PHL/1) The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) welcomes the first report submitted to the Committee on Migrant Workers by the Philippines in accordance with its obligations as a State party to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (hereafter referred to as “the Convention” or “the Migrant Workers’ Convention”). We note the exemplary scope and depth of the report — a veritable model for other State parties to the Convention —and observe further that the attention devoted to the preparation of this report by the government of the Philippines and others involved in its preparation reflects the growing and responsible leadership role that the Philippines has exercised in regional and global consideration of labour migration issues in recent years, including hosting the second Global Forum on Migration and Development in Manila last month, in which efforts were made to ensure a rights-centered approach to migration and development issues and policies. We appreciate this opportunity to share with the Committee questions and concerns generated from our analysis of the report, including perspectives and experiences of ICMC members and partners working directly with migrants and their families on the ground in the Philippines, throughout Asia, the Middle East and other countries. The Catholic Church, and ICMC members in particular, are heavily engaged in migration-related programming: coordinating and supporting: migrants’ desks; parish-based Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) groups; school-based Sons and Daughters of OFW groups; provision of direct paralegal and family counseling services; provision of entrepreneurship and economic activities and migrants rights advocacy work, to name but a few. In the same way that the Migrant Workers’ Convention relates both to non-Filipino nationals and members of their families working in the Philippines and Filipino citizens who have migrated to other countries, so too do the following perspectives and concerns. Directory: english -> bodies bodies -> Advance edited version bodies -> February 2008 Prepared by: The Center for Democratic Renewal hate groups mainstreaming of the Far Right bodies -> Initial report on compliance with the optional protocol to the convention on the rights of children in relation to the involvement of children in armed co bodies -> Domestic violence bodies -> Hurricane katrina: Racial Discrimination and Ethnic Cleansing in the United States in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina bodies -> Address: P. O. Box 60820, gr-15304 Glyka Nera Tel.: (+30) 2103472259 Fax: (+30) 2106018760 bodies -> United States of America Apology Resolution United States Public Law 103-150 Congress Joint Resolution 19 bodies -> - bodies -> U. S. Prisons a response to the Periodic Report of the United States of America April 2007 bodies -> Rights of immigrants and migrants to the united states: a critical look at the u. S. And its compliance under the convention Download 124 Kb. Share with your friends:
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