5.
Calls upon concerned Governments, particularly those of sending and receiving countries, if
they have not done so, to put in place penal sanctions to punish perpetrators of violence against women migrant
workers and, to the extent possible, to provide the victims of violence with the full range of immediate assistance,
such as counselling, legal and consular assistance, temporary shelters and other measures that will allow them to
be present during the judicial process, as well as establishing reintegration and rehabilitation schemes for
returning women migrant workers;
6.
Invites the States concerned, specifically the sending and receiving States, to consider adopting
appropriate legal measures against intermediaries who deliberately encourage the clandestine movement of
workers and who exploit women migrant workers;
7.
Encourages 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, as well as the Slavery
Convention of 1926;
8.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-sixth
session a comprehensive follow-up report on the problem of violence against women migrant workers, taking
into account the views of States and based on the expertise of and all available information from authorities and
bodies within the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations and other sources, including nongovernmental organizations;
9.
Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its fifty-sixth session under the
appropriate agenda item.
38th meeting
9 April 1998
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XI.]
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