Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Thirty-sixth session
Summary record ( p artial )* of th e 530th meeting**
Held at the Palais Wilson, Geneva, on Thursday, 6 April 2023, at 3 p.m.
Chair:Mr. Corzo Sosa
Contents
Organizational matters
Closure of the session
The discussion covered in the summary record began at 5.40 p.m.
Organizational matters
The Chair said that, at its thirty-sixth session, the Committee had held interactive in-person dialogues with high-level delegations from the Kingdom of Morocco, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of the Philippines, as well as an interactive dialogue in hybrid format with a high-level delegation from the Republic of El Salvador, and it had adopted concluding observations on the reports of all four States parties. It had also adopted lists of issues prior to reporting for Seychelles and Niger, as well as the follow-up report assessment letters concerning Argentina, Colombia and Guatemala.
The Committee had been briefed by Ms. Michelle Leighton, Chief of the Labour Migration Branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO) concerning joint collaboration to promote the rights of migrant workers and members of their families under the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the ILO Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143).
The Committee had held a fruitful interactive dialogue with Ms. Nada Al-Nashif, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, to discuss how to promote ratification of the Convention as part of initiatives by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Committee had also held a successful side event with the OHCHR Migration Unit to launch a training guide entitled “Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration.”
In addition, the Committee had held a productive dialogue with Ms. Gillian Triggs, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to discuss opportunities to enhance the long-standing collaboration between UNHCR and the Committee.
As Chair, he had presented a zero draft of the Committee’s draft general comment No. 6 on the convergence of the Convention and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Mr. Ceriani Cernadas had updated the Committee on the status of a joint general comment with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concerning policies to address racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Ms. Poussi had reported on the finalization of a road map on working methods and Mr. Ünver had updated the Committee on the ratification campaign.
More generally, the Committee had continued to enhance its partnerships with representatives from civil society organizations, ILO, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), UNHCR, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN-Women, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and OHCHR.
The Committee intended to hold in-depth intersessional discussions on its 2023–2024 workplan, the intensification of its ratification campaign, the harmonization of its working methods with other committees and its partnership with champion countries of the Convention and the Global Compact, as well as its partnership with civil society organizations and the African Network of National Human Rights Institutions.
Closure of the session
The Chair, following the customary exchange of courtesies, declared the thirty-sixth session of the Committee on Migrant Workers closed.
The meeting rose at 5. 5 5 p.m.