Sri Lanka elected to Migrant Workers Committee

Sri Lanka's candidate, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations was re-elected to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers at the elections in New York recently, Foreign Ministry release said.

This UN Committee monitors the application of the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their families.

The Convention which came into force in 2003 is the most comprehensive international Treaty dealing with the rights of migrant workers. It is one of the seven "core" international human rights treaties which together form the UN Human Rights Treaty System