FORUM: Human Rights Council Second Commission

QUESTION OF: Measures to Ensure the Rights of Migrants to Vocational Training

MAIN SUBMITTED BY:Kazakhstan

CO SUBMITTED BY: Georgia, Denmark, Malaysia, Yemen

THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SECOND COMMISION,

Considering relevant instruments adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), including the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised) adopted in 1949 and the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention adopted in 1975,

Keeping in mind that there are approximately 232 million migrants globally, which amasses to 3.1 per cent of the global population,

Viewing with appreciation the efforts lead by National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR), The Convention on Migrant Workers, and Committee of Migrant Workers,

Emphasizing that migrants have disadvantages locating and receiving financial aid due to cultural and social barriers in a foreign city or district,

Noting with concern that fewer than 49 states have adopted the International Labor Organization’s Migration for Employment Convention (CO97) of 1949, in which many states excluded multiple provisions,

Recalling all previous resolutions on the protection of migrant rights such as 69/167 of 18 December 2014 and 70/147 of 17 December 2015,

Noting in regret the exploitation of many migrant workers, especially women and children, and their inability to fully protect themselves from this exploitation,

Acknowledging the vital role migrant workers have in the economy of all member states, and the lack of rights afforded to them.

  1. Encourages the development of specific educational courses guided towards the vocational training and social adaption of migrant workers through ways such as but not limited to,
  2. utilizing facilities such as classrooms in universities and schools after hours as centers where migrant workers can spend time developing language skills,
  3. creating individualized study guidelines and tools for migrants, including reviews of material and courses that are not specifically designed for a migrant worker,
  4. urging governments to take a larger role in ensuring the vocational training of migrant workers in 3D jobs through measures such as but not limited to,
  5. subsidizing funds for corporations and firms whom meet demands and expectations on the creation of vocational training courses set by government procedure and regulations, creating an incentive for companies to allocate expertise and develop courses of such,
  6. encouraging Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to provide volunteers to physical classrooms and allocate facilities for the implementation of the classroom in attempts to aid the effort of the issue at hand,
  7. informing migrant workers of their rights and the opportunities that they can obtain;
  1. Highly encourages the development of private organizations and the public education system, especially in MEDCs that have a large population of migrants, as a means to ensure that the children of migrant workers receive a proper, specialized and suitable curriculum, under the notion that the children of migrant workers are the future and new generation of their host country,
  2. taking earnest attempts in eliminating discrimination in and out of classrooms in public schools through measures such as but not limited to,
  3. the development of specific units and topics in social studies courses in the school curriculum stressing the role of migrants and migrant workers in the age of globalization,
  4. addressing the degradation of racial and ethnic minorities in bullying campaigns, pertaining to the cause of women and children in and out of school,
  5. allocating appropriate portions of funds to the creation of courses addressing the integration of children of migrant workers into the host country to be achieved through methods such as monetary or non-monetary incentives to specialized private institutions or non-governmental organizations whom offer relevant courses,
  6. directing money, human resources and time to the development of education, facilities and extracurricular activities aimed to keep students in schools and away from street violence, to be achieved through sports, counseling and rehabilitation,
  7. developing a learning support system for children of migrant workers tackling specifically the integration into the new environment addressing the specific needs of children of migrants such as
  8. cultural barriers
  9. language and social adaption
  10. academic support;
  1. Calls for the creation of a sub branch of the ILO (International Labor Organization) addressing specifically information and statistics of migrant workers and labor migration as a whole, which will including member states and NGOs with the aims of such as but not limited to
  2. documenting progress on the programs supporting migrant workers including but not limited to,
  3. statistics on the living standards of migrant workers,
  4. the economic contributions of migrant workers and distribution of migrant workers across all sectors,
  5. tracking relevant treaties, acts, and ratifications of laws and instruments,
  6. serving as an internationalplatform for exchanging ideas between member nations and non-governmental organization such as but not limited to,
  7. incoming labor force, labor demand and local labor market absorption capacity,
  8. sharing information and developing policies that could be implemented in the respective countries, comparing and contrasting the successfulness of the program,
  9. identifying locations with a dense population of migrant workers and taking appropriate measures to alleviate job finding and improve living standards;
  1. Urges for the creation of migrant networks in the form of databases, workforces, unions and aid programs which serve as a method of aid to individual migrant workers and their families through such methods but are not limited to,
  2. tackling the difficulties in the process of job seeking faced by migrants in ways such as but not limited to,
  3. creatinga national database to collect information about the educational status of migrant workers and giving access to employers and firms to an open, public database serving as a location where companies whom comprise of a high demand for migrant workers can retrieve background information of migrant workers including degrees and qualifications in native countries,
  4. serving as a location in which both companies and migrant workers look towards as a method to find jobs, which would provide migrant workers an opportunity to a portion of jobs allocated specifically to them,
  5. serving as a location and method for migrant workers to drastically improve living standards through ways such as but not limited to,
  6. granting economic and social assistance from government subsidiaries and other funds from private organizations, granting store coupons or property repairs to families of migrant workers in an attempt to improve living standards,
  7. providing legal assistance under the circumstance where they face racial and social discrimination,
  8. integrating migrants into already existing migrant worker labor unions ensuring the rights and justified treatment of migrants workers such as but not limited to,
  9. ensuring that are not overworked and receive adequate wages,
  10. tackling safety issues and emphasizing that migrant workers work in a clean and safe environment,
  11. consulting the employer to grant migrant workers equal opportunities as local workers;
  12. having an annually published report,
  1. Encourages the digitization of online vocational courses with the goals of and to be achieved through measures such as but not limited to,
  2. increasing the numbers and variety of online training programs through incentives to mentors and parent organizations of vocational training programs providing subjects and courses such as but not limited to,
  3. the fundamentals of vocational training, including basic language skills, labor skills under mentorship and social skills,
  4. development of a skillset more suitable for higher income jobs,
  5. providing computer labs and internet for migrant workers in public locations which would serve as but is not limited to,
  6. allowing accessibility to online courses previously methods,
  7. accessing migrant networks and labor unions,
  8. authorizing migrants to send complaints regarding their working conditions;
  1. Calls upon all states, whilst adhering to relevant instruments adopted by the International Labor Organization (such as the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised) adopted in 1949 and the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention adopted in 1975) ,to ensure the effective implementation of measures aimed to halt discrimination or abuse to and of migrant workers in any way, shape or form through measures such as but not limited to,
  2. involving labor unions of migrant workers in the effort of removing discrimination,
  3. ensuring that migrant workers have adequate access to health care and urgent medical care regardless of their immigration statues to be achieved through measures such as but not limited to,
  4. providing urgent care and treatment to all migrant workers regardless of if they are legal immigrants or not,
  5. granting both public and private hospitals to databases regarding migrant workers, specifically ones detailing background information and previous medical issues,
  6. preparing volunteers, staff and translators capable of communicating in multiple languages to aid and ease the process of medical treatment,
  7. taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety and security of the most vulnerable groups of migrant workers, women and children, in ways such as but not limited to,
  8. setting up hotline in case of emergency and serious cases of abuse under circumstances that there is an immediate risk to the wellbeing of the women and children,
  9. supporting women and children’s shelters for those in need to live temporarily until they are out of immediate danger,
  10. establishing support groups for women and children to report abuses and receive support;
  1. Strongly recommends that all member states to take appropriate measures to better the understanding of the significance of migrant workers to economic growth as well as social and cultural development through measures as but not limited to,
  2. stressing and praising the role of migrant workers in 3D jobs, which contribute to the overall development of a city and nation,
  3. implementing and integrating educational programs, subjects and informative sessions which detail the need and benefits of migrant workers either inside or outside of schools,
  4. encouraging companies with 3D jobs to allocate equal amount of resources and time to both native and migrant workers.

8. Calls upon member nations to create an international fund for the purpose of creating the financial pool that may be used in the wake of an emergency influx of migrants facing dire political, religious, economic situations in ways such as:

a. to fund financial contribution by both developed and developing nations, where developed nations may shoulder heavier moral duty to this fund,

b. incentivize nations to participate in fund with principle that full reimbursement would be given to cost of accommodating migrants

c. allocation of fund money for basic care, support, education, and training of migrants