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OHCHR
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon suspended its online thirty-second session after adopting its concluding observations on the second periodic report of Chile.
Can Ünver, Committee Chairperson, noting that today the Committee had competed the large part of its thirty-second session and hence he would make his concluding remarks, said the COVID-19 pandemic had changed ways of working and this reminded the Committee more than ever that the effective protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families under the provisions of the Convention and regardless of their migratory status should be a priority for all States. And yet, this was the least ratified of all treaty bodies with 56 States parties – an inexplicable phenomena considering the importance of the issues it dealt with, and which affected the lives of millions across the globe, particularly in the c
16 April 2021
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon suspended its online thirty-second session after adopting its concluding observations on the second periodic report of Chile.
Can Ünver, Committee Chairperson, noting that today the Committee had competed the large part of its thirty-second session and hence he would make his concluding remarks, said the COVID-19 pandemic had changed ways of working and this reminded the Committee more than ever that the effective protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families under the provisions of the Convention and regardless of their migratory status should be a priority for all States. And yet, this was the least ratified of all treaty bodies with 56 States parties – an inexplicable phenomena considering the importance of the issues it dealt with, and which affected the lives of millions across the globe, particularly
The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
March 17, 2021
The Scalabrini International Migration Network took part in this year’s Global Forum on Migration and Development Summit. In this article, SIMN executive director Fr. Jairo Guidini and Development Associate Sharon Granados Mahato discuss the organization’s participation and how they hope civil society actors will grasp the opportunity offered by the COVID-19 pandemic to improve migration policies.
“The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that rich or poor, migrants or members of host communities, we all need to be immunized or we will all infect each other,” says Fr. Jairo Guidini, executive director of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN). He sees the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to change the discourse on migration.
A few days ago a news item carried by
The Guardian, a UK daily, created a major stir in the national media of several Asian countries. The piece was an expose of an ongoing tragedy involving deaths of migrant workers in Qatar. It revealed that more than 6,500 migrant workers from South Asia have died since the country earned the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. On average, every week, 12 migrant workers have died since December 2010 while working on various infrastructure projects including stadiums, an airport, roads, the public transport system, hotels and a new city.
The report stated that 69 percent of deaths among Indian, Nepali and Bangladeshi workers were officially categorised as natural . Other significant causes were road accidents (12 percent) workplace accidents (seven percent) and suicide (seven percent). Interestingly, the classification of natural death was usually made without an autopsy and thus failed to provide legitimate medical explanation for the unde