Labour to hold awareness rally against abuses of African migrant workers

The FCT council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the National Trade Union Network on Migration, will on Tuesday hold a rally to protest the violation of African migrant workers’ rights in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Com. Abubakar Yakubu, Chairman NLC FCT Council and the NLC desk officer on Migration, Eustace James, […]

The FCT council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the National Trade Union Network on Migration, will on Tuesday hold a rally to protest the violation of African migrant workers’ rights in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.

Com. Abubakar Yakubu, Chairman NLC FCT Council and the NLC desk officer on Migration, Eustace James, in a statement, said the rally will create awareness on the protection of the human and labour rights of migrant workers and their families.

They added that the rally is part of activities to mark the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Centenary and call for Decent Work.

It also stated that, “the rally is to draw attention to the inhuman treatment of Nigerian and other African migrants in the GCC States”, adding that “the focus of the rally will be campaign against maltreatment and abuses of Nigerian and other African labour migrants to the GCC States, and protection of migrant workers human and workers’ rights.”

The rally’s trail will visit the Embassy of the United Arab Emirate (UEA) at Central Business District, Abuja.

Also, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa), an umbrella body of African trade unions, said the first phase of the campaign to end the abuse of rights of migrant workers will simultaneously take place in 10 African countries.