Step it up. Dignity. Rights. Development

A year-long Step it up! campaign was launched in December 2014 to generate new ratifications of the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and the Members of their Families (the UN Migrant Workers Convention) in the lead-up to the  25th anniversary in December 2015 of its adoption in 1990.  

Step it up!  promotes further ratification of the UN Migrants Workers Convention to advance the struggle for equality, dignity, decent work, human rights and development.

It was launched by a consortium of civil society networks and international organisations, led by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), together with the OHCHR Secretary of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, International Labour Organization, South Asian Regional Trade Union Council, Diplomacy Training Program, Arab Network for Migrants Rights, Solidarity Center, and Migrant Rights International.

The Convention is one of the ten core international human rights treaties, but the one least ratified.

Although it has been ratified by a number of significant “destination” and “transit” countries as well as many countries of origin, altogether only 47 States have ratified the Convention so far, and none from the “Global North”.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1. Take part in the event Global Mobilization for Migrants' Rights on May 1 2015 in your country

2. Get involved by visiting the CW25 website and sharing the message on the CW25 Facebook Page and Twitter account