18 December 2008
The Chairperson of the Committee on Migrant Workers, Abdelhamid El Jamri, and the special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge Bustamante, issued the following statement today, on the occasion of International Migrants Day 2008 (18 December):
“Over the last number of years, the international community has paid much attention to the economic dimension of migration and to the links between migration and development, but it has paid much less attention to other aspects of migration, such as the rights of the migrant workers and members of their families.
Today, as we celebrate International Migrants Day 2008, we would like to draw your attention to the many children whose lives are affected by migration. Read more
in Sabah, Malaysia where a big concentration of undocumented Filipino migrant whose children are born are at risk of statelessness.....
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