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8 Yale Hum. Rts. & Dev. L.J. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/yhurdvl8 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers Margaret L. Satterthwaite This Article considers the impact of the Migrant Workers Convention on the human rights of women migrants. While the adoption of a convention targeting abuses against migrant workers is a significant development in international human rights law, the author cautions that its specialized nature might be perceived as a limitation on the obligations that states owe to women migrants. The author warns against traditional, single- variable, compartmentalization of human rights treaties that would make the Migrant Workers Convention the only applicable human rights tool to women migrants, and, instead, advocates an intersectional approach. Using intersectionality, the author shows that many of the major human rights treaties can be invoked on behalf of the empowerment of migrant workers. While advocates and scholars should welcome the Migrant Workers' Convention as an interpretive tool and as a potential site for the development of best practices, they should also refocus their attention on the entire range of human rights treaties, and consider the ways in which the rights of women migrants are already included in the panoply of standards set out in those instruments. t Research Director and Clinical Instructor, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law. B.A., New School for Social Research, 1990; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1995; J.D., New York University School of Law, 1999. This Article is dedicated to the memory of Kim Barry. I am grateful to the following people for substantive comments and insightful assistance: Philip Alston, Kim Barry, Jean D'Cunha, Ratna Kapur, Gerald L6pez, Alice Miller, Smita Narula, AnnJanette Rosga, Barbara Schulman, and Lee Waldorf. I would also like to thank Romanita Iordache and Daniel Hardy for invaluable research assistance. Portions of this Article began as a briefing paper for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to inform the agency's work to advance the rights of women migrant workers through its Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia program. I thank UNIFEM for permission to use relevant segments here.

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