ILO Migration for Employment Convention No. 97 of 1949
ILO Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention No. 143 of 1975
The 1990 International Convention
On the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
and Members of their Families
STATUS as of 22 September 2009
Twenty (20) ratifications / accessions are needed for the Convention to enter into force and become effective
[1]
. The convention finally came into force on July 1, 2003. The election of the Treaty Body was held on 11 December 2003. 10 Experts (5/2, 5/4 years terms) – 14 after 41 Ratifications
State
(In bold, has ratified one or more instruments) |
Ratification ILO
C-97 |
Ratification ILO
C-143 |
Date of Ratification or Accession (a)
Migrant Workers Convention |
Date of Signature
Migrant Workers Convention |
| Albania |
2 March 2005 |
12 September 2006 |
5 June 2007a |
|
Algeria |
19 October 1962 |
|
21 April 2005a |
|
Argentina |
|
|
23 February 2007 |
10 August 2004 |
| Armenia |
27 January 2006 |
27 January 2006 |
|
|
Azerbaijan |
|
|
11 January 1999a |
|
| Bahamas |
25 May 1976 |
|
|
|
Bangladesh |
|
|
|
7 October 1998 |
| Barbados |
8 May 1967 |
|
|
|
| Belgium |
27 July 1953 |
|
|
|
Belize |
15 December 1983 |
|
14 November 2001a |
|
Benin |
|
11 June 1980 |
|
15 September 2005 |
Bolivia |
|
|
16 October 2000a
|
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2 June 1993 |
2 June 1993 |
13 December 1996a |
|
| Brazil |
18 June 1965 |
|
|
|
Burkina Faso |
9 June 1961 |
9 December 1977 |
26 November 2003 |
16 November 2001 |
Cambodia |
|
|
|
27 September 2004 |
| Cameroon |
3 September 1962 |
4 July 1978 |
|
|
Cape Verde |
|
|
16 September 1997a |
|
Chile |
|
|
21 March 2005 |
24 September 1993 |
Colombia |
|
|
24 May 1995a |
|
Comoros |
|
|
|
22 September 2000 |
| Congo |
|
|
|
29 September 2008 |
| Cuba |
29 April 1952 |
|
|
|
| Cyprus |
23 September 1960 |
28 June 1977 |
|
|
| Dominica |
28 February 1983 |
|
|
|
Ecuador |
5 April 1978 |
|
5 February 2002a |
|
El Salvador |
|
|
14 March 2003 |
13 September 2002 |
Egypt |
|
|
19 February 1993a |
|
| France |
29 March 1954 |
|
|
|
Gabon |
|
|
|
15 December 2004 |
| Germany |
22 June 1959 |
|
|
|
Ghana |
|
|
8 September 2000a |
|
| Granada |
9 July 1979 |
|
|
|
Guatemala |
13 Feb 1952 |
|
14 March 2003 |
7 September 2000 |
Guinea |
|
5 June 1978 |
12 September 2000a
|
|
Guinea-Bissau |
|
|
|
12 September 2000 |
Guyana |
8 June 1966 |
|
|
15 September 2005 |
Honduras |
|
|
11 August 2005 |
|
| Hong Kong (ChinaSAR)
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|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia |
|
|
|
22 September 2004 |
| Israel |
30 March 1953 |
|
|
|
| Italy |
22 October 1952 |
23 June 1981 |
|
|
| Jamaica |
22 December 1962 |
|
25 September 2008a |
|
| Kenya |
30 November 1965 |
9 April 1979 |
|
|
Kyrgyz Republic |
|
|
29 September 2003a |
|
Lesotho |
|
|
16 September 2005 |
24 September 2004 |
Liberia |
|
|
|
22 September 2004 |
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
|
|
18 June 2004a |
|
| The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
17 November 1991 |
17 November 1991 |
|
|
| Madagascar |
14 June 2001 |
|
|
|
| Malawi |
22 Mar 1965 |
|
|
|
| Malaysia ( Sabah) |
3 March 1964 |
|
|
|
| Mali |
|
|
5 June 2003a |
|
Mauritania |
|
|
22 January 2007a |
|
| Mauritius |
2 December 1969 |
|
|
|
Mexico |
|
|
8 March 1999 |
22 May 1991 |
| Moldova |
12 Dec 2005 |
|
|
|
| Montenegro |
|
|
|
23 October 2006 |
Morocco |
|
|
21 June 1993 |
15 August 1991 |
| Netherlands |
20 May 1952 |
|
|
|
| New Zealand |
10 November 1950 |
|
|
|
|
Nicaragua
|
|
|
26 October 2005a |
|
Niger |
|
|
18 March 2009a |
|
| Nigeria |
17 October 1960 |
|
27 July 2009a |
|
| Norway |
17 February 1955 |
24 January 1979 |
|
|
Paraguay |
|
|
23 September 2008 |
13 September 2000 |
Peru |
|
|
14 September 2005 |
22 September 2004 |
Philippines |
|
14 September 2006 |
5 July 1995 |
15 November 1993 |
| Portugal |
12 December 1978 |
12 December 1978 |
|
|
| Rwanda |
|
|
15 December 2008 |
|
| Saint Lucia |
14 May 1980 |
|
|
|
| San Marino |
|
23 May 1985 |
|
|
Sao Tome and Principe |
|
|
|
6 September 2000 |
|
|
|
9 June 1999a |
|
Serbia |
24 November 2000 |
24 November 2000 |
|
11 November 2004 |
Seychelles |
|
|
15 December 1994a |
|
Sierra Leone |
|
|
|
15 September 2000 |
| Slovenia |
29 May 1992 |
29 May 1992 |
|
|
| Spain |
21 March 1967 |
|
|
|
Sri Lanka |
|
|
11 March 1996a |
|
| Sweden |
|
28 Dec 1982 |
|
|
Syria |
|
|
2 June 2005 |
|
Tajikistan |
10 April 2007 |
10 April 2007 |
8 January 2002 |
7 September 2000 |
| Tanzania (Zanzibar) |
22June 1964 |
|
|
|
| Trinidad & Tobago |
24 May 1963 |
|
|
|
Timor Leste |
|
|
30 January 2004
a |
|
Togo |
|
8 November 1983 |
|
15 November 2001 |
Turkey |
|
|
27 September 2004 |
13 January 1999 |
Uganda |
|
31 March 1978 |
14 November 1995a |
|
| United Kingdom |
22 Jan 1951 |
|
|
|
| Uruguay |
18 March 1954 |
|
15 February 2001a |
|
| Venezuela |
9 June 1983 |
9 June 1983 |
|
|
Zambia |
2 December 1964 |
|
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Signature is a preliminary step to ratification; accession is an “all in one” adoption of the Convention equivalent to ratification in signifying that the Convention standards are incorporated into national law and the country has become a State Party to the Convention.
A status chart, the text of the Convention, and Human Rights Commission resolutions and reports related to migrants’ rights are available on the website of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at www.unhchr.ch.
