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8.
Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or
acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; 4/
9.
Invites trade unions to support the realization of the rights of
women migrant workers by assisting them in organizing themselves so as to
enable them better to assert their rights;
10.
Requests treaty-monitoring bodies and calls upon non-governmental
organizations concerned with violence against women to include, where
appropriate, the situation of women migrant workers in their deliberations and
findings and to supply relevant information to United Nations bodies and
Governments;
11.
Calls upon non-governmental organizations concerned in cooperation
with both the sending and the host countries to conduct seminars and training
programmes on human rights instruments, particularly those pertaining to
migrant workers;
12.
Urges all States, with the support of relevant non-governmental
organizations, to adopt appropriate measures to provide support services to
women migrant workers who have become traumatized as a consequence of
violations of their rights by, inter alia, unscrupulous employers and/or
recruiters, and to provide resources for their physical and psychological
rehabilitation;
13.
Also urges that the subject of violence against women migrant
workers be included in the agenda of the Fourth World Conference on Women:
Action for Equality, Development and Peace, to be held in Beijing in 1995;
14.
Calls upon competent bodies and specialized agencies of the United
Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental
organizations to inform the Secretary-General of the extent of the problem and
to recommend further measures to implement the purposes of the present
resolution;
15.
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly
at its forty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution,
taking into account the relevant views of the Commission on the Status of
Women in its discussion of the subject of violence against women at its
thirty-eighth session, in March 1994.
85th plenary meeting
20 December 1993
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Resolution 45/158, annex.