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UN Committee on Migrant Workers to review Venezuela, Bolivia and Syria

16 September 2022

GENEVA (16 September 2022) - The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) will hold its upcoming session from 19 to 30 September, during which it will review the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Plurinational State of Bolivia and the Syrian Arab Republic.

The three countries are among the 57 States parties to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. They are required to undergo regular reviews by the Committee of 14 independent international experts on how they are implementing the Convention.

The Committee, which has received the respective country reports as well as submissions from national human rights institutions and non-governmental organisations, will discuss a range of issues in public dialogues with the three State delegations on the following dates at Geneva time:

Venezuela
20 September 15:00 - 18:00
21 September 10:00 - 13:00

Bolivia
22 September 15:00 - 17:00
23 September 15:00 - 17:00

Syria
22 September 10:00 - 12:00
23 September 10:00 - 12:00
26 September 10:00 - 12:00

The above public dialogues will be held at the Palais des Nations, Room XXIII, Geneva. All public meetings are open to the press and livecast on UN Web TV. More information about the session, including reports submitted by the States and the full schedule of meetings, is available on the session webpage.

For more information and media registration to attend public meetings, please contact:

Vivian Kwok at +41 (0) 22 917 9362 / vivian.kwok@un.org or
the UN Human Rights Office Media Section at +41 (0) 22 928 9855 / ohchr-media@un.org

Background

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families monitors States parties' adherence to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, which to date has 57 States parties. The Committee is made up of 14 members who are independent human rights experts drawn from around the world, who serve in their personal capacity and not as representatives of States parties.

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