PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS
In 1990, the United Nations General Assembly passed the “International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.” By 2003, over fifty nations across the planet had ratified, acceded to or seceded to this convention.
However, the nation called the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was not one of them. Admittedly, no western European powers had signed on either.
Let’s look at what this treaty promised migrants—and don’t forget that OECD countries send 100s of millions of their own citizens abroad to work or serve every single decade.
Look (below) at examples what this treat had/has promised!
Please browse through some of the protections from that un-fully ratified convention, which millions and millions of U.S. citizens - and other migrant workers are likely to continue to miss out on in the coming decade—. This is especially important as the U.S. job market and America’s heavy debt scenarios draw daily more and more Americans (and other OECD nationals) to either join the military or find a private firm or public company abroad to work for, especially here in the Middle East where America’s petrodollar debt is being circulated.
Article 7
States Parties undertake, in accordance with the international instruments concerning human rights, to respect and to ensure to all migrant workers and members of their families within their territory or subject to their jurisdiction the rights provided for in the present Convention without distinction of any kind such as to sex, race, colour, language, religion or conviction, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, nationality, age, economic position, property, marital status, birth or other status.
Article 81. Migrant workers and members of their families shall be free to leave any State, including their State of origin. This right shall not be subject to any restrictions except those that are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order (ordre public), public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others and are consistent with the other rights recognized in the present part of the Convention.
2. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right at any time to enter and remain in their State of origin.
Article 9The right to life of migrant workers and members of their families shall be protected by law.
Article 10No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 111. No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be held in slavery or servitude.
2. No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour.
3. Paragraph 2 of the present article shall not be held to preclude, in States where imprisonment with hard labour may be imposed as a punishment for a crime, the performance of hard labour in pursuance of a sentence to such punishment by a competent court.
4. For the purpose of the present article the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include:
(a) Any work or service not referred to in paragraph 3 of the present article normally required of a person who is under detention in consequence of a lawful order of a court or of a person during conditional release from such detention;
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