Rights, dignity & ethics

The lives and hopes, the sacrifices and contributions, the needs and rights of migrants and their families worldwide call all of us to explore how civil society, including Church institutions, can organize to better promote human dignity, family unity and universal common good within migration policies at national, regional and international levels. Migration and development work best when basic human rights are respected. Rights are not the 'opposite' of practical; in fact rights solve problems. Protection of these rights reduces the need for migration, since lack of rights in their home country is often a factor that leads people to emigrate. Respecting rights by providing legal avenues for migration also reduces irregular migration, smuggling and human trafficking and reduces opportunities for shadow markets based on hidden workers and off-the-books enterprises.

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