A/RES/49/165
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Recognizing that it is the duty of sending countries to protect and
promote the interests of their citizens who seek or receive employment in
other countries, to provide them with appropriate training/education and to
apprise them of their rights and obligations in the countries of employment,
Aware of the moral obligation of receiving or host countries to ensure
the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons within their
boundaries, including migrant workers, and in particular women migrant
workers, who are doubly vulnerable because of their gender and because they
are foreigners,
Noting with concern the continuing reports of grave abuses and acts of
violence committed against the persons of women migrant workers by some of
their employers in some host countries,
Stressing that acts of violence directed against women impair or nullify
the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Convinced of the need to eliminate all forms of discrimination against
women and the need to protect them from gender-based violence,
1.
Expresses grave concern at the plight of women migrant workers who
become victims of physical, mental and sexual harassment and abuse;
2.
Recognizes with appreciation the efforts exerted by some receiving
countries to alleviate the negative situation of women migrant workers;
3.
Recalls, in this context, its resolution 48/104 of 20 December
1993, by which it adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence
against Women;
4.
Welcomes measures to strengthen the human rights of women and the
establishment of closer ties between the organs dealing with women’s issues
and rights in the United Nations, through a special programme of activities,
as envisioned in the proposed revision to the medium-term plan for the period
1992-1997;
5.
Invites States concerned, specifically the sending and receiving
States of women migrant workers, to conduct regular consultations for the
purpose of identifying problem areas in promoting and protecting the rights of
women migrant workers and in ensuring health and social services for them,
adopting specific measures to address those problems, setting up as necessary
appropriate mechanisms to implement those measures, and, in general, creating
conditions that foster greater harmony and tolerance between women migrant
workers and the rest of the society in which they reside;
6.
Calls upon the countries concerned to take appropriate measures to
ensure that law enforcement officials assist in guaranteeing the full
protection of the rights of women migrant workers, consistent with
international obligations of Member States;
7.
Urges both sending and host countries to help ensure that women
migrant workers are protected from unscrupulous recruitment practices, if
needed by the adoption of legal measures;
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; 3/
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Resolution 45/158, annex.
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