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Finally, all stakeholders in the worldof labour should support the campaignfor the ratification of the United NationsConvention on the Protection of MigrantWorkers and Members of Their Families,and take advantage of the institutional op-portunities offered by participation in re-

gional integration bodies, such as NAFTA,MERCOSUR, the Central American Com-mon Market and the Andean Communityof Nations, to draw the attention of gov-ernments to the situation of migrant work-ers and to the need to protect their basic

rights. Steps should also be taken to pressfor all international commitments to be in-corporated into national laws.

Notes

1 Juan Mendez: Report by the Special Rapporteur

 for Migrant Workers and their Families of the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights, August 2001,http://www.acnur.org

2 Lelio Marmora and María Cassarino: “Lavariable migratoria en el Mercosur” (The MigrationVariable in Mercosur) in IOM Review of International Migration in Latin America, Vol. 17 (1999), No. 1, p. 4.