11. Invites the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Ninth United
Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to
consider including in their respective programmes of action the subject of the
traffic in women and girl children;
12. Recommends that the problem of trafficking in women and girl children
be given consideration within the implementation of all relevant international
legal instruments and, if need be, that consideration be given to measures to
strengthen them, without undermining their legal authority and integrity;
13. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Economic and
Social Council at its substantive session of 1995 for inclusion in a preliminary
report to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on the implementation of
the present resolution under the item entitled "Advancement of women";
14. Requests the Secretary-General to focus the International Day for the
Abolition of Slavery, 2 December 1996, on the problem of trafficking in human
persons, especially women and children, and to devote one meeting of the
fifty-first session of the General Assembly to the discussion of this problem.
Resolution 39/7.
Violence against women migrant workers*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Bearing in mind the Charter of the United Nations, which reaffirms faiths
in human rights and fundamental freedoms, in the dignity and worth of the human
person, and in the equal rights of women and men,
Reaffirming the principles set forth in the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 37/ adopted by the General
Assembly on 18 December 1979,
Stressing that the promotion of the human rights of women constitutes an
integral part of the human rights activities of the United Nations, as
reaffirmed in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 24/ adopted by the
World Conference on Human Rights,
Welcoming the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development 35/ held at Cairo from 5 to 13 September 1994, which
called upon all countries to take full measures to eliminate all forms of
exploitation, abuse and harassment, and all violence against women,
Welcoming also the Copenhagen Declaration 38/ and the Programme of
Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 39/ which declared that
countries should take concrete and effective measures against the exploitation
of migrant workers,
*
For the discussion, see chap. IV.
37/
General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex.
38/
See A/CONF.166/9, chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
39/
Ibid., annex II.
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