United Nations
A/RES/60/139
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 64
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/503)]
60/139. 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 with appreciation the various activities initiated by entities of the
United Nations system, such as the Regional Programme on Empowering Women
Migrant Workers in Asia of the United Nations Development Fund for Women and
the high-level panel discussion held by the Commission on the Status of Women at
its forty-ninth session on the integration of gender perspectives in macroeconomics,
which included a discussion on the protection of women migrant workers, as well as
other activities through which the plight of women migrant workers continues to be
assessed and alleviated,
Recognizing the increasing feminization of international migration, which
requires greater gender sensitivity in all policies and efforts related to the subject of
international migration,
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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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