United Nations international legal instruments

All migrant workers are entitled to the rights established under international law in these United Nations international legal instruments:

• United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (1990)
• Convention Relating the Status of Refugees (1967)
• Declaration of Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live (1985)
• International Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960)
• International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
• International Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961)
• International Convention on the Rights of a Child (1989)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3449 “Measures to Ensure the Human Rights and Dignity of All Migrant Workers” (2000)
• Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Conventions against Transnational Organised Crime (2000)
• Palermo Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea, Air, Supplementing the United Nations Conventions against Transnational Organised Crime (2000)