Dec. 18 International Migrants Day

Dear NNIRR members, partners & allies,

Every year we celebrate December 18, International Migrants Day, to call on our countries and governments to uphold and respect the human rights of all migrants and also by signing and implementing the U.N. International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

The Migrant Workers Convention was ratified by the U.N. General Assembly on December 18, 1990 and it has only been in the last three years that enough countries ratified it that it has gone into force, but only in those countries which raitified the convention.

This year the National Network is again preparing for educational and organizing activities and forums to celebrate December 18.

Please contact us if you would like to work on this critical action as we continue demanding legalization with full rights, an end to the migrant deaths at the border, demilitarization and accountability, family reunification, labor rights, ending the expansion of contract labor/bracero/guest worker programs, and the fulfilment of the civil rights and civil liberties of all persons, regardless of their immigration or citizenship status.

peace,

Arnoldo Garcia
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

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