Maduro asks the UN to guarantee the social rights of migrants

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroasked this Monday to the United Nations Organization (UN) guarantee the social rights of migrants in the world, after denouncing that they are victims of xenophobia and stigmatization.

“We have required United Nations that guarantees the citizen rights of all migrants in the world”, Maduro said during his television program broadcast on the state channel.

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The president assured that world migration is an issue that must be addressed to guarantee the right to citizenship, work and dignity of each migrant.

“Migrants have the right to citizenship, labor rights, social security rights, respect for their dignity”, he continued.

The president announced that he will convenecoming soon” a world conference on migration with the support of member countries of the Non-Aligned Movementhe G77 + Chinese and the BRICS.

“Enough of xenophobiaof persecutionof stigma (…) and denial of all social rights”, he added.

Maduro took the opportunity to reiterate his call to the Venezuelan migrants to return to their country and recalled that the “return to homeland plan”, a government program that offers free repatriation to anyone who wants to return.

Venezuela has been facing a migratory wave for years as a result of a generalized crisis that has led 7.2 million Venezuelans to leave their country, according to data from the UN.

The government, without offering numbers, maintains that migration is much less and attributes the problem to a “Campaignagainst Venezuela.

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In fact, the Maduro government considered “hostile” the conference on Venezuelan migration that was held in Brussels last March, organized by Canada and countries of the European Union with the support of the UN.

Is “a show that only serves the commercial interests of some of its participants”, he criticized at the time.

According to Caracasmore than 30,000 compatriots have returned to Venezuela through its government plan, while others “hundreds of thousands” have returned in recent years voluntarily.

Source: Elcomercio

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