EVENTS
- Migrant Workers Convention Petition Campaign
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary year of the UN Migrant Workers Convention, December18, the International Resource Centre on the Human Rights of Migrants, together with the European Platform for Migrant Workers Rights, launches the campaign: “Europe it’s Time to Ratify the Migrant Workers Convention,” demanding the European Union to live up to its core values. All 27 Member States of the EU are asked to ratify this core international human rights instrument.
The petition can be found here:www.migrantsconvention.eu
This symposium was a joint event of MDM France in partnership with the University of Political Sciences (Sciences Po), financed by HUMA network funds. The conference provided a general legal, economical, sociologic, historic and medical perspective for health professionals. It specifically enlightened the contradictions in public policies between public statements promoting access to health care and the security and migration political agenda.
Many academics, specialists or field workers testified of the situation in France, also largely commenting the global evolution of health care access policies in Europe. Professionals showed how migrants and asylum seekers (but also Romas and sex workers) were the most targeted population by security policies, suffering difficulties to access health care and economic welfare.
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