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Regional Conference On Defending Rights Of Migrant Workers
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 26, 2012: speaking at the regional conference on human rights held by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Kathmandu today, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav put the emphasis on the need for the collective efforts on ensuring the rights of migrant workers and expressed his concern over the wretched human rights condition of migrant Nepalese workers, according to the state-run news agency RSS and thehimalayantimes.com.
"With the peoples’ movement in 2006 we made significant strides in Nepal’s democratic development and journey that began with the historic 1950 revolution and 1990 movement for multiparty democracy culminated in historical achievements of 2006. In this long journey, it was only in mid-nineties we instituted National Human Rights Commission as our endeavor to create democratic institutions", the President said, "We are also committed to institutionalizing the historic political development and peace process in Nepal to transform the common aspirations of Nepali people for the Democratic Federal Republic as expressed through the popular movement of Nepali people in 2006", "We are furthermore committed to pluralist democracy, rule of law, devolution of power, human rights, and fundamental freedoms of our people. However, we are equally facing formidable challenges in Nepal to bring about rapid and tangible economic benefits to our people," according to the RSS/thehimalayantimes.com.
Representatives of the gulf countries and of the South Pacific region including Malaysia, and Republic of Korea are participating in the two-day conference, according to the NHRC Spokesperson Gauri Pradhan. The conference is to discuss the status of human rights and other issues of migrant workers.
According to the government statistics, currently more than 2.4 million Nepalis are working in foreign countries but the non-government sector put this number at around three million. So, National Human Rights Institutions Commission held the conference on the Protection and Promotion of Migrant Workers in the Asia Pacific Region starting today.
