United Nations Treaty Bodies

Alan Desmond

Chapter 103 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 597-605 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The 1990 UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW), the core international human rights instrument elaborated specifically for the protection of migrants’ rights, is supervised by a dedicated monitoring body composed of 14 independent experts, namely, the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (UN CMW). The challenges faced by the CMW as a result of the uniquely low rate of ratification of the ICRMW have been ameliorated by the increasing attention paid to migrants’ rights protection in the interpretative and supervisory work of the treaty bodies overseeing the remaining eight core international human rights instruments. Taken together, these nine UN treaty bodies constitute an important mechanism for migrants’ rights protection. The effectiveness of their work, however, faces common interrelated challenges that have been the focus of ongoing reform efforts.

Keywords: UN treaty bodies; UN CMW; Concluding Observations; General Comments; Individual complaints procedures; UN treaty body reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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