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Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975

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Date of adoption
  
June 24, 1975

Classification
  
Migrant workers

Date in force
  
December 9, 1978

Subject
  
Migrant workers

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Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975, or Convention concerning Migrations in Abusive Conditions and the Promotion of Equality of Opportunity and Treatment of Migrant Workers is an International Labour Organization Convention for the rights of migrant workers. However unlike the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, there are restrictions of migrant worker to be applied on Article 11.

It was established in 1975:

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to migrant workers,...

  • Article 1. Each Member for which this Convention in force undertake to respect the basic human rights of all migrant workers.
  • Article 11. (1)For this Convention the term migrant worker means a person who migrates or who has migrated from one country to another with a view to bring employed otherwise than on his own account and includes any person regularly admitted as a migrant worker.
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    Ratifications

    As of 2013, the convention has been ratified by 23 states. Yugoslavia is a former ratifying state.

    References

    Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 Wikipedia
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