International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant in the United States

PART II

Non-discrimination with respect to rights

Article 7

States Parties undertake, in accordance with the international
instruments concerning human rights, to respect and to ensure to all
migrant workers and members of their families within their territory or
subject to their jurisdiction the rights provided for in the present
Convention without distinction of any kind such as sex, race, colour,
language, religion or conviction, political or other opinion, national,
ethnic or social origin, nationality, age, economic position, property,
marital status, birth or other status.

PART III

Human rights of all migrant workers and members of their families

Article 8

1. Migrant workers and members of their families shall be free to
leave any State, including their State of origin. This right shall not be
subject to any restrictions except those that are provided by law, are
necessary to protect national security, public order (ordre public),
public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others and are
consistent with the other rights recognized in the present part of the
Convention.

2. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right
at any time to enter and remain in their State of origin.

Article 9

The right to life of migrant workers and members of their families
shall be protected by law.

Article 10

No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be subjected to
torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 11

1. No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be held in
slavery or servitude.

2. No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be required
to perform forced or compulsory labour.

3. Paragraph 2 of the present article shall not be held to preclude,
in States where imprisonment with hard labour may be imposed as a
punishment for a crime, the performance of hard labour in pursuance of a
sentence to such punishment by a competent court.

4. For the purpose of the present article the term “forced or
compulsory labour” shall not include:

(a) Any work or service not referred to in paragraph 3 of the present
article normally required of a person who is under detention in
consequence of a lawful order of a court or of a person during
conditional release from such detention;

(b) Any service exacted in cases of emergency or calamity threatening
the life or well-being of the community;

(c) Any work or service that forms part of normal civil obligations so
far as it is imposed also on citizens of the State concerned.

Article 12

1. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right
to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include
freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of their choice and
freedom either individually or in community with others and in public or
private to manifest their religion or belief in worship, observance,
practice and teaching.

2. Migrant workers and members of their families shall not be subject
to coercion that would impair their freedom to have or to adopt a
religion or belief of their choice.

3. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or belief may be subject only
to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect
public safety, order, health or morals or the fundamental rights and
freedoms of others.

4. States Parties to the present Convention undertake to have respect
for the liberty of parents, at least one of whom is a migrant worker,
and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral
education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.

Article 13

1. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right
to hold opinions without interference.

2. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right
to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of
frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or
through any other media of their choice.

3. The exercise of the right provided for in paragraph 2 of the
present article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It
may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be
such as are provided by law and are necessary:

(a) For respect of the rights or reputation of others;

(b) For the protection of the national security of the States
concerned or of public order (ordre public) or of public health or
morals;

(c) For the purpose of preventing any propaganda for war;

(d) For the purpose of preventing any advocacy of national, racial or
religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility
or violence.

Article 14

No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be subjected to
arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home,
correspondence or other communications, or to unlawful attacks on his or
her honour and reputation. Each migrant worker and member of his or her
family shall have the right to the protection of the law against such
interference or attacks.

Article 15

No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be arbitrarily
deprived of property, whether owned individually or in association with
others. Where, under the legislation in force in the State of employment,
the assets of a migrant worker or a member of his or her family are
expropriated in whole or in part, the person concerned shall have the
right to fair and adequate compensation.