A/RES/70/130
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 29 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/482)]
70/130. Violence against women migrant workers
The General Assembly,
Recalling all of its previous resolutions on violence against women migrant
workers and those adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, the
Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, and also recalling the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence
against Women, 1
Reaffirming the provisions concerning women migrant workers contained in
the outcome documents of the World Conference on Human Rights, 2 the
International Conference on Population and Develop ment, 3 the Fourth World
Conference on Women 4 and the World Summit for Social Development 5 and their
reviews,
Reaffirming also the provisions concerning women migrants contained in the
outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Develo pment, 6
and calling upon States to promote and protect effectively the human rights and
fundamental freedoms of all migrants regardless of migration status, especially
those of women and children, and to encourage their active participation, as
appropriate, in processes that contribute to decision-making, planning and
implementation of policies and programmes for sustainable development at all
levels,
Reaffirming further that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women 7 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 and
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1
Resolution 48/104.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
4
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
5
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
6
Resolution 66/288, annex.
7
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
8
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
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