And when intersecting along with race, ethnicity, and sex, they become even more vulnerable to various forms of discrimination. Message through the Director General on Global Migrants Day
Deaths and disappearances
Make fair labour migration a reality Injustices suffered by migrant workers are injustices to us all – ILO chief Like all employees, migrant workers are entitled to labour criteria and international human legal rights protections, including freedom of association and collective bargaining, non-discrimination, and safe and healthy working environments, upheld the ILO chief.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres meets South Sudanese refugees who are waiting for relocation in Imvepi Get away, in Uganda.
‘Do everything possible’
“Access to decent work is a key strategy to realize migrants’ development potential and share to society”, he said. “We must recognize that injustices suffered by migrant employees are injustices to all of us. We must do better”. And he pushed intended for search and rescue efforts, medical care, expanded and varied rights-based pathways for migration, and greater international investments in countries of origin “to ensure migration is really a choice, not a necessity”.
Mister. Houngbo flagged that migrants do not only go lacking on high-risk and desperate journeys.
Realize basic rights
“Many migrant domestic, agricultural and other workers are usually isolated and out of reach of these who could protect them”, with the undocumented particularly in danger of abuse. Secretary-General António Guterres acknowledged the more than 80 per cent of those who cross edges in a safe and organised fashion as powerful drivers of “economic growth, dynamism, and understanding”. UN Photo/Mark Garten
Vulnerabilities
“The global community must do better to ensure… [that they] are able to realize their basic human being and labour rights”, he or she spelled out in his message for the day . They should also be entitled to social protection, growth and recognition. “But unregulated migration along increasingly perilous routes – the cruel realm of traffickers – continues to draw out a terrible cost”, he continued in his information marking the day .
Fair labour migration
“We can’t let the politicization of migration, hostility and divisive narratives divert all of us from the values that matter most”, he urged. Meanwhile, ILO supports government authorities, employers and workers for making fair labour migration a real possibility. No matter what compels people to move, “their rights must be respected”, underscored the IMO chief. Leaving them unable to exercise basic rights renders migrant workers “invisible, vulnerable and undervalued for their contributions in order to society”, pointed out the most senior ILO official.
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Mr. Guterres urged the entire world to “do everything possible” to prevent their loss of existence – as a humanitarian essential and a moral and lawful obligation. “Behind every number is a human being – a sister, brother, daughter, son, mother, or father”, he said, reminding that “ migrant rights are human rights ”.
‘Cornerstone of development’
There is absolutely no migration crisis; there is a turmoil of solidarity – UN Secretary-General For his part, the head of the International Labour Organization ( ILO ), Gilbert F. Houngbo, shone a light on protecting the legal rights of the world’s 169 million migrant workers. To make these rights a reality, Mr. Houngbo stressed the key importance of reasonable recruitment, including eliminating recruitment fees charged to migrant workers, which can help remove human trafficking and compelled labour.
