to employment, marriage, divorce, inheritance, child-bearing, childrearing, and custody of children",
was replaced by the following text:
"Encourage Governments, within their legal framework, to eliminate all
policies and practices of discrimination and coercion related to
employment, marriage, divorce, inheritance, maternity, child-rearing, and
custody of children".
43. At the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution, as orally
revised (see chap. I, sect. C, resolution 38/6). 43/
44. After the adoption of the draft resolution, statements were made by the
representatives of Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, the Islamic Republic
of Iran, India, the Philippines and Madagascar.
Violence against women migrant workers
45. At the 15th meeting, on 17 March 1994, the representative of the
Philippines, on behalf of Algeria, Belarus, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, 42/ Namibia, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines
and Portugal, 42/ introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.16) entitled
"Violence against women migrant workers", and orally revised it as follows:
(a) In the eighth preambular paragraph, the words "increasing feminization
of migrant workers" were replaced by the words "increasing number of women
migrant workers";
(b) In operative paragraph 1, the words "particularly as it applies to
migrant women" were replaced by the words "including applying it to migrant
women";
(c) In operative paragraph 2, the words "frequent and" before the words
"regular consultations" were deleted and the words "as necessary, appropriate"
were inserted between the words "setting up" and "mechanisms";
(d) In operative paragraph 3, the words "to incorporate in their laws,
where none exist, specific provisions" were deleted and the words "if needed, by
the adoption of legal measures" were added at the end of the paragraph;
(e)
Operative paragraph 8, which had read:
"8. Requests the Centre for Human Rights to include as a matter of
priority the promotion and protection of the human rights of women migrant
workers in its agenda, through the appropriate channels and relevant
bodies, and to bring to the attention of the General Assembly, through the
Commission on Human Rights, and the Economic and Social Council, the report
thereon",
was replaced by the following text:
43/ The representative of Bulgaria subsequently stated that his delegation
should be removed from the list of sponsors of the draft resolution, as orally
revised.
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