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Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2012 - OSCE

24 September to 5 October Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2012 OSCE was conducted in Warsaw, Poland. The agenda for these meeting is adopted by the Permanent Council, reflecting the individual topics for more detailed discussion.  
In the framework of the meeting devoted to the humanitarian issues and other commitments were discussed the following themes:

  • Labor migrants, the integration of legal migrants;
  • Refugees and displaced persons;
  • Treatment of citizens of other State Parties

The aim of this meeting was to review the implementation of OSCE commitments on the protection of labor migrant’s human rights and to assess the current situation and challenges within the OSCE region in this sphere. Providing a forum for participants to discuss humanitarian issues and other commitments with a particular focus on a number of issues related to voluntary or forced migration. Participants of the meeting discussed the using of economic, social and cultural rights of labor migrants, to the extent that they are relevant to the field human dimension, in particular the requirement to ensure the possibility of using these rights by everyone without discrimination. 35 representatives of NGOs from different countries wished to speak on the dialogue forum including the U.S.A, France, Switzerland, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, North Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan (Vice-President of NGO “Sana Sezim” -  Shakhnoza Khassanova). The moderator of the meeting was Michele Levoy, the Director of Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM).
At the meeting were discussed the following questions:

  • Are participating states establishing inter-state dialogue between countries of origin and countries of destination?
  • How do participating States ensure that labor migrants enjoy equal rights with the nationals with respect to access to employment and social services?
  • What are the participating States doing to provide the labor migrants with the opportunity to participate in the public life of the receiving country?   
  • Are the participating states making sufficient efforts to provide information to migrants in their own language on their civil rights and obligations?
  • What are examples of legislation aimed at preventing structural and institutional discrimination against labor migrants?  
  • What are participating States doing to reintegrate returning migrants?
  • What steps are migrants taking individually and through representative organizations, to actively pursue their integration in the participating States of which they are residents but not citizens?  
  • What gender aspects of labor migration exist in participating States?