In this resolution, the ITUC-AP Conference notes that labour migration is growing and closely linked to economic development, or rather its absence. The negative effects of globalisation are what force people to migrate to foreign countries. The Conference notes with serious concern the most exploitative and inhuman conditions of migrant domestic workers, and affirms the urgent need for organising migrant workers as the most effective way to protect and promote their interests.
The Conference commits the ITUC-AP to: encourage establishment of migrant labour centres/departments; establish partnership agreements between unions; promote and assist in organising migrant labour in both origin and departure countries; campaign for reforms where labour laws restrict migrant workers the right to join unions; actively involve in conducting pre-departure orientation programmes; monitor and expose violations, abuses, and exploitations; build alliances with other civil society organisations; promote ratification and implementation of ILO Conventions 97, 143, and the 1990 UN Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families; lobby together with affiliates, governments, and regional groupings; organise activities on migrant labour at various levels; actively participate in the development of the ILO Convention on domestic workers; work with ILO and other concerned international organisations for the establishment of a rights-based multilateral framework for migration in the global economy.
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