The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families is a valuable instrument both to bring about recognition of the human rights of migrants and to uphold or defend such rights in practice. Nonetheless, migrants’ associations and organizations in support of migrants tend to underestimate the significance of international conventions. Compared with the demands they put forward conventions offer too little. However, experience has shown that international conventions can be used successfully to defend migrants’ rights. In this article, suggestions are made as to how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can use this new Convention.
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