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| Sunday, 11 December 2005 |
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Sri Lanka in UN Committee Foreign Affairs Ministry in a media release Sri Lanka elected to Migrant Workers Committee says. Sri Lanka's candidate Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations was re-elected to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers at the elections held in New York recently. This UN Committee monitors the application of the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. The Convention which came into force in the year 2003 is the most comprehensive international Treaty dealing with the rights of Migrant Workers. It is one of the seven "core" international human rights treaties which together form the UN Human Rights Treaty System. "At present there are 34 state parties to the Convention and the Committee on Migrant Workers comprises of ten members. Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam is the current Chairperson of the Committee having been elected as the first Chair of the Committee in 2003. At this year's election, five members to the Committee were elected from Sri Lanka, Turkey, Philippines, Guatemala and Azerbaijan out of nine candidates." |
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