Campaign
for Australian Ratification of the Migrant Workers Convention
The Network of Immigrant and Refugee
Women Australia Inc. (NIRWA) is working
to ratify The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families also referred to as the UN
Migrant Workers Convention, to support 215 million migrant workers’ rights and
their families. (2009 United Nations
International Migration Report) .
The national launch will be in New South Wales on
Sunday 17 June 2012 from 10.30am–11.30am at Bankstown Roundhouse jointly
organised by Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association and Asian Women At Work,
inviting families to come to enjoy
face-painting and balloon sculpturing for the kids, and lunch for the adults.
To add to the momentum, each NIRWA State
member organisation will organise launches of the Postcard as part of the
campaign. NIRWA is also producing an animation about the UN Migrant Workers
Rights Convention, to be featured on the website after the national launch – so
watch that space.
NIRWA is asking the Australian public
to sign the postcard and share their voice, or just provide a name and
signature, to support the ‘215 Million
Reasons … The Rights of Migrant Workers & their Families’.
NIRWA is reinforcing the 215 million
reasons to support the rights of Migrant Workers and their families, as each
and every migrants’ rights deserves to be acknowledged as human rights.
On October 1 2011, a coalition of civil
society groups (including NIRWA and The Human Rights Council of Australia) and
global groups launched a renewed call for Australia to ratify the International
Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families ("the Migrant Workers
Convention").
“It is important for our Australian
community to recognise that migrant workers are recognised as the most
vulnerable category of workers throughout the world. The postcard campaign is a
way we can have people talking about and supporting the Migrant Workers
Convention,” says Vivi Germanos-Koutsounadis, Chair of NIRWA. [END]
For media enquiries:
Vivi Germanos-Koutsounadis 02 9569 1288 and Jackie Leewai, Media Officer at
0408 462 756. Also visit NIRWA on Facebook, Twitter, Website and our Blog.
The Network of
Immigrant and Refugee Women of Australia Inc. (NIRWA) is an independent body
that seeks to advocate for immigrant and refugee women at the national level by
working to achieve cultural, social, economic, education and gender equality
for immigrant and refugee women living in Australia.
