Strengthening Migrants’ Rights Under Law
The International Migrants Bill of Rights is an initiative of students and scholars from Georgetown Law’s Global Law Scholars program, the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics.
The bill seeks to consolidate the international law governing the protection of migrants in a unifying soft-law document, restating and reformulating existing rights to make their application to migrants clearer and more effective and positing a margin of enhancement consistent with progressive values.
While the bill puts forward a vision for the protection of international migrants, it is also rooted in international consensus on human rights, state sovereignty, and the balancing of the interests and needs of all actors affected by the increasingly complex phenomenon of migration.
At a recent forum, panelists discussed the existing legal frameworks for protecting migrants and civil society’s activism in the governance of migration. Listen above.
