A/RES/72/149
Violence against women migrant workers
Reaffirming further that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women 7 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 and
the Optional Protocols thereto, 9 as well as other relevant conventions and treaties,
provide an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for the
elimination and prevention of all forms of discrimination and violence against women
and girls and for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,
Recalling the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 10
acknowledging that the 2030 Agenda covers the achievement of gender equality and
empowerment of all women and girls and the protection of labour rights and
promotion of safe and secure working environments for all workers, including
migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in informal employment,
and also acknowledging the need, inter alia, to end all violence and d iscrimination
against them,
Welcoming the adoption of the New York Declaration for Refugees and
Migrants at the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing
large movements of refugees and migrants, held on 19 September 2016, 11 the
commitment by Member States to ensure that their responses to large movements of
refugees and migrants mainstream a gender perspective, promote gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls and fully respect and protect the human
rights of women and girls, and their commitment to combat sexual and gender-based
violence to the greatest extent possible,
Acknowledging the role of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), including in supporting national efforts,
to increase women’s access to economic opportunities, including for women migrant
workers, and to end violence against them, in the light of the UN -Women strategic
plan, 2018–2021, 12
Acknowledging also the need to protect the labour rights of and promote a safe
environment for migrant workers and migrants in informal employment, including
women migrant workers in all sectors, and to facilitate opportunities for safe, orderly
and regular migration,
Reaffirming the outcomes of the Fourth World Conference on Women, the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 4 and of the twenty-third special session
of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and
peace for the twenty-first century”, 13 and their reviews,
Taking note of the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status
of Women at its sixty-first session, 14 recognizing the need to address the special
situation and vulnerability of migrant women and girls, and that many migrant
women, particularly those who are employed in the informal economy and in less
skilled work, are especially vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, and underlining in
this regard the obligation of States to protect the human rights of migrants so as to
prevent and address abuse and exploitation,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 71/1.
UNW/2017/6/Rev.1.
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2017, Supplement No. 7 (E/2017/27),
chap. I, sect. A.
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