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STORY: UN / MIGRANT WORKERS RIGHTS
TRT: 02:39
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 OCTOBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
17 OCTOBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Felipe González Morales, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants:
“There is a very worrisome trend of hate speech in many countries around the world. In this respect it is very important that states, especially at the highest level, refrain from having an inflammatory, xenophobic, discourse and they should instead promote all initiatives to avoid this worrisome trend to expand in the societies.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Felipe González Morales, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants:
“There has been a feminization of migration, so, about half or even more than half of the persons in mobility are women, and this has impact on the migration policies as well. I would say that there are many types of violations that affect migrant women, but for instance, some of the practices, the bad practices by states that of course have an impact on men, on migrant men, have a stronger bad impact on women.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Can Ünver, Chairperson, Committee on Migrant Workers:
“We have right now, according to the UN population unit, 258 million people on the move. It’s a big number, and our convention, the only legal convention pertinent to migrant’s rights is the most comprehensive instrument dealing with the rights of migrant workers. Well, other international instruments also impact on the rights of migrant workers or deal with related issues. However, our convention has direct impacts on human rights as a whole.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Can Ünver, Chairperson, Committee on Migrant Workers:
“There is a need of a change of philosophy approaches to international migration, especially to safeguard, for the safeguarding of the human rights of migrants, migrant workers, and members of their families. This comprehensive convention of ours is unfortunately the least ratified convention in the UN system.”
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After presenting his annual report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, Felipe González Morales, today (17 Oct) said “there is a very worrisome trend of hate speech in many countries around the world” and called on leaders to “refrain from having an inflammatory, xenophobic, discourse,” and instead promote initiatives to prevent this trend from expanding in their societies.
Talking to reporters, González Morales noted that “there has been a feminization of migration” and “about half or even more than half of the persons in mobility are women.”
He said, “bad practices by states that of course have an impact on men, on migrant men, have a stronger bad impact on women.”
During the same briefing, the Chairperson of the Committee on Migrant Workers, Can Ünver, said that according to the United Nations Population Division, “258 million people on the move.”
He said the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families “is the most comprehensive instrument dealing with the rights of migrant workers” and “has direct impacts on human rights as a whole.”
Ünver said, “there is a need of a change of philosophy approaches to international migration,” and noted that “this comprehensive convention of ours is unfortunately the least ratified convention in the UN system.”
Just 55 states have so far ratified the Convention.
