United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/143
Distr.: General
10 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 110
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/501)]
58/143. Violence against women migrant workers
The General Assembly,
Recalling all of its previous resolutions on violence against women migrant
workers and those adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, the
Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against
Women, 1
Reaffirming the provisions concerning women migrant workers contained in
the outcome documents of the World Conference on Human Rights, 2 the
International Conference on Population and Development, 3 the Fourth World
Conference on Women 4 and the World Summit for Social Development 5 and their
five-year reviews,
Noting the various activities initiated by entities in the United Nations system,
such as the Hemispheric Conference on International Migration: Human Rights and
the Trafficking in Persons in the Americas, organized by the Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean and the International Organization for
Migration, held at Santiago from 20 to 22 November 2002, as well as other
activities that continue to assess and alleviate the plight of women migrant workers,
Emphasizing the need for objective, comprehensive, broad-based information,
possibly including a database for research and analysis, and a wide exchange of
experience and lessons learned by individual Member States and civil society in the
formulation of policies and concrete strategies to address the problem of violence
against women migrant workers,
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1
See resolution 48/104.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
4
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
5
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
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