2. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right at any time to enter
and remain in their State of origin.
Article 9
The right to life of migrant workers and members of their families shall be protected by law.
Article 10
No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 11
1. No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be held in slavery or servitude.
2. No migrant worker or member of his or her family shall be required to perform forced or
compulsory labour.
3. Paragraph 2 of the present article shall not be held to preclude, in States where
imprisonment with hard labour may be imposed as a punishment for a crime, the
performance of hard labour in pursuance of a sentence to such punishment by a competent
court.
4. For the purpose of the present article the term “forced or compulsory labour” shall not
include:
(a) Any work or service not referred to in paragraph 3 of the present article normally
required of a person who is under detention in consequence of a lawful order of a court or
of a person during conditional release from such detention;
(b) Any service exacted in cases of emergency or calamity threatening the life or well-being
of the community;
(c) Any work or service that forms part of normal civil obligations so far as it is imposed
also on citizens of the State concerned.
Article 12
1. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right to freedom of thought,
conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or
belief of their choice and freedom either individually or in community with others and in
public or private to manifest their religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and
teaching.
2. Migrant workers and members of their families shall not be subject to coercion that
would impair their freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of their choice.
3. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or belief may be subject only to such limitations as are
prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health or morals or the
fundamental rights and freedoms of others.
4. States Parties to the present Convention undertake to have respect for the liberty of
parents, at least one of whom is a migrant worker, and, when applicable, legal guardians to
ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own
convictions.
Article 13
1. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right to hold opinions
without interference.
2. Migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right to freedom of
expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of
art or through any other media of their choice.
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