The European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH) and European civil society organisations called on the EU and its member states to sign and ratify the international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families.
The convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 18, 1990.
“Our association regrets that we must issue this call yet again for 2014, a year in which the final European packet on migrant workers was adopted. These directives are a clear manifestation of the EU’s unwillingness to view migrants who come to work and live in our countries as more than mere instruments for the creation of wealth in our nations.
“The EU is incapable of respecting international conventions - with which many member states actually agree - and even its own rules... that “everyone is equal before the law,” they said.