Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975

ILO Convention

C143
Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975
Date of adoption	June 24, 1975
Date in force	December 9, 1978
Classification	Migrant workers
Subject	Migrant workers
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Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975, or Convention concerning Migrations in Abusive Conditions and the Promotion of Equality of Opportunity and Treatment of Migrant Workers is an International Labour Organization Convention for the rights of migrant workers. Howener unlike the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, there are restrictions of migrant worker to be applied on Article 11.

It was established in 1975:

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to migrant workers,...

• Article 1. Each Member for which this Convention in force undertake to respect the basic human rights of all migrant workers.
• Article 11. (1)For this Convention the term migrant worker means a person who migrates or who has migrated from one country to another with a view to bring employed otherwise than on his own account and includes any person regularly admitted as a migrant worker.

(2) It does not apply to (a) frontier workers (b) artistes and members of liberal profession (c) seamen (d) persons coming specially for purpose of education ^[1]

Ratifications

The following countries have ratified this Convention:

Countris Albania, Almenia, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cyprus, Guinea, Italy, Kenya, Macedonia, Montevideo, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela	Date	Notes

References

1. ^ - ILO Convention C143

External links

• www.ilo.org/ official ILO site.