The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families of 1990 – in short the UN Migrant Workers Convention – has not received enough attention in Germany and other target countries of migration. The UN Migrant Workers Convention substantiates and strengthens the human rights obligations enshrined in earlier human rights treaties for migrants.With the following study, the German Institute for Human Rights seeks to introduce the UN Migrant Workers Con-vention and to promote its ratification by Germany and other target countries of migration. At the same time, the study analyses gaps in the protection of migrants’ human rights in Germany; gaps that need to be closed irrespective of the ratification of the Convention.
