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Violence against women migrant workers
the Optional Protocols thereto, 9 as well as other relevant conventions and treaties,
provide an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for
the elimination and prevention of all forms of discrimination and violence against
women and girls and for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of
women,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 10
and acknowledging that the 2030 Agenda covers the achievement of gender equality
and empowerment of all women and girls and the protection of labour rights and
promotion of safe and secure working environments for all workers, including
migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious
employment, and also acknowledging the need, inter alia, to end all violence and
discrimination against them,
Acknowledging the role of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), including in supporting national efforts,
to increase women’s access to economic opportunities, including for women migrant
workers, and to end violence against them, in the light of the UN-Women strategic
plan, 2014–2017, 11 which has among its six goals increasing women’s access to
economic opportunities, and preventing violence against women and girls and
expanding access to services for survivors, and ackno wledging the policy and
programmatic work of UN-Women on empowering women migrant workers,
Reaffirming the outcomes of the Fourth World Conference on Women, the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 4 and of the twenty-third special session
of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and
peace for the twenty-first century”, 12 and their reviews,
Welcoming the political declaration adopted by the Commission on the Status
of Women at its fifty-ninth session on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of
the Fourth World Conference on Women, 13 and taking note, in particular, of the
pledge to take further concrete action to ensure the full, effective and accelerated
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome
documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,
Taking note with appreciation of the agreed conclusions adopted by the
Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-seventh session, 14 and taking note,
in particular, of the commitment, as appropriate, to further adopt and implement
measures to ensure the social and legal inclusion and protection of women migrants,
including women migrant workers in countries of origin, transit and destination,
promote and protect the full realization of their human rights and their protection
against violence and exploitation, implement gender-sensitive policies and
programmes for women migrant workers and provide safe and legal channels that
recognize their skills and education, provide fair labour conditions and, as
appropriate, facilitate their productive employment and decent work as well as
integration into the labour force,
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9
Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
Resolution 70/1.
11
UNW/2013/6.
12
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
13
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2015, Supplement No. 7 (E/2015/27), chap. I,
sect. C, resolution 59/1, annex.
14
Ibid., 2013, Supplement No. 7 (E/2013/27), chap. I, sect. A.
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