A/RES/72/149
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 28 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/432)]
72/149.
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 also recalling 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 reviews,
Reaffirming also the provisions concerning women migrants contained in the
outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, 6
and calling upon States to promote and protect effectively the human rights and
fundamental freedoms of all migrants regardless of migratory status, especially those
of women and children, and to encourage their active participation, as appropriate, in
processes that contribute to decision-making, planning and implementation of
policies and programmes for sustainable development at all levels,
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Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhage n, 6–12 March 1995 (United
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
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