International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant

 

Article 84

Each State Party undertakes to adopt the legislative and other
measures that are necessary to implement the provisions of the present
Convention.

PART IX

Final provisions

Article 85

The Secretary-General of the United Nations is designated as the
depositary of the present Convention.

Article 86

1. The present Convention shall be open for signature by all States.
It is subject to ratification.

2. The present Convention shall be open to accession by any State.

3. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with
the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Article 87

1. The present Convention shall enter into force on the first day of
the month following a period of three months after the date of the
deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession.

2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the present Convention
after its entry into force, the Convention shall enter into force on the
first day of the month following a period of three months after the date
of the deposit of its own instrument of ratification or accession.

Article 88

A State ratifying or acceding to the present Convention may not
exclude the application of any Part of it, or, without prejudice to
article 3, exclude any particular category of migrant workers from its
application.

Article 89

1. Any State Party may denounce the present Convention, not earlier
than five years after the Convention has entered into force for the State
concerned, by means of a notification in writing addressed to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations.

2. Such denunciation shall become effective on the first day of the
month following the expiration of a period of twelve months after the
date of the receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General of the
United Nations.

3. Such a denunciation shall not have the effect of releasing the
State Party from its obligations under the present Convention in regard
to any act or omission which occurs prior to the date at which the
denunciation becomes effective, nor shall denunciation prejudice in any
way the continued consideration of any matter which is already under
consideration by the Committee prior to the date at which the
denunciation becomes effective.

4. Following the date at which the denunciation of a State Party
becomes effective, the Committee shall not commence consideration of any
new matter regarding that State.

Article 90

1. After five years from the entry into force of the Convention a
request for the revision of the Convention may be made at any time by any
State Party by means of a notification in writing addressed to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Secretary-General shall
thereupon communicate any proposed amendments to the States Parties with
a request that they notify him whether they favour a conference of States
Parties for the purpose of considering and voting upon the proposals. In
the event that within four months from the date of such communication at
least one third of the States Parties favours such a conference, the
Secretary-General shall convene the conference under the auspices of the
United Nations. Any amendment adopted by a majority of the States Parties
present and voting shall be submitted to the General Assembly for
approval.

2. Amendments shall come into force when they have been approved by
the General Assembly of the United Nations and accepted by a two-thirds
majority of the States Parties in accordance with their respective
constitutional processes.

3. When amendments come into force, they shall be binding on those
States Parties that have accepted them, other States Parties still being
bound by the provisions of the present Convention and any earlier
amendment that they have accepted.

Article 91

1. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall receive and
circulate to all States the text of reservations made by States at the
time of signature, ratification or accession.

2. A reservation incompatible with the object and purpose of the
present Convention shall not be permitted.

3. Reservations may be withdrawn at any time by notification to this
effect addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who
shall then inform all States thereof. Such notification shall take
effect on the date on which it is received.

Article 92

1. Any dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the
interpretation or application of the present Convention that is not
settled by negotiation shall, at the request of one of them, be submitted
to arbitration. If within six months from the date of the request for
arbitration the Parties are unable to agree on the organization of the
arbitration, any one of those Parties may refer the dispute to the
International Court of Justice by request in conformity with the Statute
of the Court.

2. Each State Party may at the time of signature or ratification of
the present Convention or accession thereto declare that it does not
consider itself bound by paragraph 1 of the present article. The other
States Parties shall not be bound by that paragraph with respect to any
State Party that has made such a declaration.

3. Any State Party that has made a declaration in accordance with
paragraph 2 of the present article may at any time withdraw that
declaration by notification to the Secretary-General of the United
Nations.

Article 93

1. The present Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English,
French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be
deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall transmit
certified copies of the present Convention to all States.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned plenipotentiaries, being duly
authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the
present Convention.

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