MIGRANT.NEWS 

 

 

 

Joint Initiative by December 18 and Migrants Rights International.

 

 

MIGRANT.NEWS, Issue 72, 30 June 2003

 

1. International Call for Universal Ratification of the Migrant Workers Convention

 

 

The UN Migrant Workers Convention enters into force on July 1st after a more than 10 year-long struggle by migrants rights activists from across the world. Welcoming this important event, 290 migrants rights organisations, unions, NGOs, and other civil society actors are calling upon their governments to implement this new UN Convention or if they have not yet done so, to ratify this international human rights instrument.

 

For a list of the signatories and the full text of the joint letter, visit: http://www.december18.net/UNConvention010703.htm

 

More information is available by writing to info@december18.net

 

 

 

 

2. Worldwide events to mark entry into force of Migrants Rights Convention

 

For details about following events and for more events, see

http://www.december18.net/UNConvention010703calendar.htm

 

 

Bangladesh

 

01/07/03 ñ Celebration and Commemoration of the Entry into Force - Dhaka

Includes: demonstration, discussion session, and cultural function.

Organised by WARBE - migrants@bangla.net

 

 

Hong Kong

 

01/07/03 ñ Press Conference ñ Organised by the Coalition for Migrants' Rights, Asian Domestic Workers Union, Indonesian Migrant Workers Union and Asian Migrant Centre.

 

 

Italy

 

02/07/03 ñ Conference: Children and Migration ñ Rome

Organised by Associazone ReOrient. - reorient@tiscali.it

 

 

 

 

Spain

 

01/07/03 ñ Conference on Migration ñ Chiclana - Cadiz.

Organised by Argentinos de Norte a Sur in collaboration with Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucia - inesbeatrizbas@mixmail.com

 

03/07/03 ñ Conference on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers ñ Barcelona. Organised by the Catalan IMD Platform.

 

 

Sri Lanka

 

24/06/03 ñ National Press Conference ñ Colombo

01/07/03 -  Demonstration - Colombo

Organised by: Migrant Services Center, ACILS and ACTFORM.

nwcchild@eureka.lk

actform@sltnet.lk

manori@acils.lk

 

 

Switzerland

 

30/06/03 ñ Press Conference ñ Organised by the Bern IMD Platform.

 

01/07/03 ñ Panel Presentation Marking the Entry into Force of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrants and their Families  - Geneva

Organised by Steering Committee Global Campaign

http://www.december18.net/UNConvention010703SCGeneva.pdf

 

01-15/07/03 ñ Photo Exhibition ñ Geneva

Organised by IOM.

 

 

The Netherlands

 

21/06/03 ñ Information Session: Celebrating another Victory for Migrants Rights ñ the UN Migrant Convention becomes another instrument to protect Migrant Rights, Amsterdam  ñ Organised by Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers and TNI.

 

 

United Kingdom

 

14/07/03 ñ Conference on Migrant Workers Rights: Could we do more in Britain? London ñ Organised by Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and the Trades Union Congress.

don@jcwi.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Information Kit

 

Coinciding with the entry into force of the UN Migrants Rights Convention, UNESCO has released an Information Kit, which can be found at:

http://www.unesco.org/most/migration/convention/

 

 

 

 

 

4. International Calendar

 

For details about following events and for more events, see

http://www.december18.net/calendar.htm

To include yours, please contact at  info@december18.net.

 

30/06-01/07/03 - ILO Regional Tripartite Meeting on Challenges to Labour Migration Policy and Management in Asia, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

1-11/07/03 - European Union Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Summer School, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2-4/07/03 - Roma Media in Southeast Europe, Belgrade, Serbia.

 

6-10/07/03 - Roma Rights Summer Workshop for Romani Activists

 

6-10/07/03 - National Migration Conference, Washington, DC, USA.

 

6-18/07/03 - International Human Rights Academy, Ghent, Belgium.

 

7-11/07/03 - Democracy and Human Rights in Multiethnic Societies, Konjic, Bosnia

 

7-11/07/03 - International Institute of Sociology 36th World Conferences, Session 5: Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship in the Perspective of Globalisation, Beijing, China.

 

7-25/07/03 - International Summer School in Forced Migration, Oxford, UK

 

14-18/07/03 - ICFTU-APRO/ICFTU-BC National Seminar on Plight of Bangladeshi Migrant Workers - Measures to Protect and Promote Their Rights, Tokyo, Japan.

 

17-18/07/03 - "Future workshop" on migrants and the media, Freiburg, Germany.

 

17-19/07/03 - The Poetics of Exile, Auckland, New Zealand.

 

5-23/08/03 ñ UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, New York.

 

09/08/03 - International Day of the World's Indigenous People

 

11-20/09/03 - 5th Annual Workshop on the African Regional Human Rights System, Banjul, Gambia.

 

15-19/09/03 - 8th International Metropolis Conference, Gaining from migration, Vienna, Austria.

 

22/09-26/09/03 - The Legal Situation of Foreigners in France, Paris, France.

 

28/09-01/10/03 -Migration Online-Using the Internet for Anti-Racism and Migration Work, Hattingen, Germany.

 

 

 

 

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Spanish, Italian and French version available upon request at myriam@december18.net

 

Spanish version translated by Maria Ruiz, Spain, French version translated by Isabelle Slinckx, Belgium and Italian version translated by Eny Giambastiani, Italy.