The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon concluded its consideration of the initial report of Venezuela on measures taken to implement the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, with Committee Experts commending the State’s ratification of labour instruments, while asking questions about the repatriation of Venezuelan migrant workers, notably Venezuela’s Return to the Homeland Plan.

A Committee Expert noted that Venezuela had ratified all the fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization, which was important and praiseworthy. A Committee Expert asked what public policy had been adopted in terms of the Return to the Homeland Plan? Could more information be provided about people who had returned under the Plan? Had they been able to reintegrate and adapt? How many people had benefitted from the Return to the Homeland Plan? What was the real content of the programme?

In opening remarks, Francisco Torrealba, Minister of People’s Power for the Social Process of Labour and head of the delegation, said that in recent years there had been an increase in outward migratory flows to countries in the region, in many cases to neighbouring countries. It was important to understand that that was an induced migration process, and was the direct result of a policy of aggression, which sought to destroy the peace and economic...

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