Introduction : The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights / Paul de Guchteneire and Antoine Pécoud
Migration and human rights: the uneasy but essential relationship / Graziano Battistella
Role of civil society in campaigning for and using the ICRMW / Mariette Grange and Marie D'Auchamp
Committee on migrant workers and implementation of the ICRMW / Carla Edelenbos
Migrants' rights in UN human rights convention / Isabelle Slinckx
The need for a rights-based approach to migration in the age of globalization / Patrick A. Taran
Obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification of the ICRMW in Asia / Nicola Piper
Obstacles to ratification of the ICRMW in Canada / Victor Piché, Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier and Dina Epale
Mexico's role in promoting and implementing the ICRMW / Gabriela Díaz and Gretchen Kuhner
Migrants' rights after apartheid: South African responses to the ICRMW / Johnathan Crush, Vincent Williams and Peggy Nicholson
Policy on the ICRMW in the United Kingdom / Bernard Ryan
The French political refusal on Europe's behalf / Hélène Oger
Migration and human rights in Germany / Felicitas Hillmann and Amanda Klekowski Von Koppenfels
Migration and human rights in Italy: prospects for the ICRMW / Kristina Touzenis
The ICRMW and the European Union / Euan MacDonald and Ryszard Cholewinski.