Protecting Pakistanis Imprisoned Abroad: High-Level Consultation for International Migrants Day 2024
Date.18 Dec, 2024
On 18 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Each year on 18 December, the United Nations uses International Migrants Day to highlight the contributions made by the roughly 281 million migrants and the challenges they face.
In commemoration of this, on 12 December 2024, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) and Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) organised a high-level consultation for key policy stakeholders. The event aimed to facilitate discussion of the challenges faced by Pakistani migrants and prisoners abroad through two thematic sessions focusing on prevention and protection. These discussions covered the need for safer migration practices and awareness, consular protection mechanisms, and repatriation of overseas Pakistani prisoners, framing strategic recommendations for systemic intervention.
The dialogue brought together key representatives from the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of Human Rights, Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Interior, members of the Parliament, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), diplomats, FIA, UN IOM and civil society actors.
Key outcomes of the discussion included unanimous consensus on the need to improve stakeholder and inter-ministerial coordination, commitment towards forming a working group on consular protection headed by the NCHR, and the need for a Consular Protection Act to formalise protections for overseas Pakistanis.
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