Status for All Now! – Diane Johnston – December 16-18

In 2021, Ireland regularized most undocumented people in the country who met a basic residency requirement." (With files from the Migrant Rights Network, CTV News and The Globe and Mail) For Your Information On December 4, 2000, the UN General Assembly, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world and recognizing the enormous contribution that migrants make in the g. [...] A decade earlier, on December 18, 1990, the Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. [...] The Dialogue also emphasized the need for respect and protection for the rights of migrants as the essential condition for their flourishing and contributions to society. [...] Professor Obakata called on Canada to sign the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and to actively prevent and address contemporary forms of slavery. [...] Others move to escape conflict, persecution or large-scale human rights violations." It is noted that at the end of 2022, "an estimated total of 71.1 million people remained displaced within the borders of their own country -- 62.5 million as a result of conflict and violence and 8.7 million as a result of disasters." The IOM states that in 2022, 48 per cent of migrants were women and girls.