Election of the members of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) for 2020-2023 term
was held on 10 June 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The CMW is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of
the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW) signed under the United
Nations umbrella.
Associate Professor Can Unver, who had been nominated by Turkey, was
re-elected to the Committee at the ninth meeting of States parties to the
ICRMW. Unver, is currently a member of the CMW for the 2016-2019 term and
has also been serving as its Vice-chairperson since April 2018.
Turkey has pioneered advocating the rights of migrants and made significant
contributions to the negotiations of the Global Compact for Migration,
which also includes references to migrant workers, adopted by the United
Nations General Assembly in December 2018. As one of the countries who has
considerable number of migrant workers abroad and who also hosts a large
number of foreign workforce, Turkey, attaches importance to all Member
States of the United Nations becoming parties to the ICRMW.