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"Migrant workers are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers" - Juan Somavia, Director General of the ILO.
The ILO is the only United Nations agency with a constitutional mandate to protect migrant workers, and this mandate has been re-affirmed by the 1944 Declaration of Philadelphia and the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It has been dealing with labour migration issues since its inception in 1919. It has pioneered international Conventions to guide migration policy and protection of migrant workers. All major sectors of the ILO - standards, employment, social protection and social dialogue - work on labour migration within its overarching framework of "decent work for all". ILO adopts a rights-based approach to labour migration and promotes tripartite participation (governments, employers and workers) in migration policy.
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International labour migration: A rights-based approach
ILO, ISBN 978-92-2-119120-9, Geneva, 2010
This is a comprehensive discussion of issues of labour migration in a globalizing world. It highlights
ILO perspectives on labour migration, the connections between migration and development, decent work for migrant
workers, the normative framework for protection of migrant rights, the governance of international labour migration,
and the role of social dialogue and international cooperation. In so doing, it brings together the elements of a
rights-based approach to labour migration as identified by its constituents.
See also the Executive Summary -
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Facing the global jobs crisis: Migrant workers,
a population at risk
13 August 2009
The global economic crisis is posing new challenges for the world's 100 million
migrant workers. They may face reduced employment and migration opportunities,
worsening living and working conditions and increasing xenophobia. Although no
massive return of migrant workers has been observed so far, the crisis is having
repercussions on their earnings and the remittances they send home. Ibrahim
Awad, Director of the International Migration Programme at the International
Labour Office, published a new study entitled "The global economic crisis and
migrant workers: Impact and response". Interview with ILO Online.
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