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2.
Mexico and Tunisia: piloting indicators of migrants’ human rights
28.
In April 2015, responding to requests by States for assistance with data collection
and disaggregation, OHCHR, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and
Development of the World Bank, UNICEF, ILO and the Migrant Forum in Asia organized
an expert meeting to develop indicators on the human rights of migrants, focusing on the
rights to health, education and decent work. Participants in the two-day meeting
characterized the essential attributes of the rights enshrined in international instruments and
identified contextually relevant indicators and benchmarks for measuring the degree to
which the human rights of migrants had been met, particularly at the country level. They
highlighted the need for data on the situation of migrants and their families, and for
indicators that could be used to improve the design of migration policies and programmes.
The meeting was attended by local and national government officials, human rights and
migration experts, statisticians and representatives of civil society organizations with
expertise in data collection.
29.
Mexico took a lead in piloting the implementation of the findings made at the expert
meeting. A national consultation in May 2015 assessed and refined the proposed indicators
and confirmed the feasibility of producing disaggregated data on migrants. The exercise
produced useful proposals for improving data collection, including one to establish a
national information system on migration, which is currently under development.
30.
As part of the same initiative, OHCHR started work on a national pilot consultation
in Tunisia, which will be conducted with the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration
and Development, UNICEF, ILO and the Migrant Forum in Asia. The Tunisian National
Observatory for Migration will lead in taking the project forward and will host a
consultation in early February 2016 to assess the applicability of various human rights
indicators to migration in Tunisia. Participants will include relevant ministries, the national
statistics office, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders.
3.
Tunisia: framing a national migration strategy compliant with international
standards
31.
ILO and OHCHR advised and assisted the Government of Tunisia in formulating a
national road map for labour migration policies. Developed in the course of tripartite
discussions between the Ministry of Social Affairs of Tunisia, the labour union (UGTT)
and the employers’ union (UTICA), the road map sets out the final outputs of a programme
to enhance the governance of labour migration and the protection of migrant workers’
rights in Tunisia, as well as technical cooperation priorities. The latter include, inter alia,
capacity-building programmes to protect the rights of migrants in Tunisia and programmes
to strengthen Tunisian social dialogue on migration. As advocated by OHCHR, the road
map foresees a broad advocacy campaign leading to the State’s swift adoption of the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families.
32.
Reflecting this initiative, ILO and OHCHR provided technical advice on legislative
reform with respect to labour migration in the State. A workshop held early in 2016 will
bring together Tunisian ministries, Members of Parliament, social partners, and ILO and
OHCHR experts to explore the steps required to ratify the Convention on Migrant Workers
and ILO Conventions 97, 143 and 189. It will also address key topics, including the
protection of the rights of Tunisians abroad; the situation of domestic workers in Tunisia;
potential reform of the labour code; the role of labour inspectors in protecting migrant
workers’ rights; and challenges and opportunities that migrant workers experience in their
access to the national labour market. ILO and OHCHR will draft technical notes and
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