A/RES/74/127
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 discrimination
against them,
Reaffirming the recognition in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third
International Conference on Financing for Developme nt 11 that gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls and women’s full and equal participation
and leadership in the economy are vital to the achievement of sustainable
development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity,
Recalling 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, 12
Recalling also the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration,
adopted at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for
Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, in Marrakech, Morocco, on 10 and 11
December 2018, and endorsed by the General Assembly in resolution 73/195 of 19
December 2018,
Recalling further that the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular
Migration is based on the following set of cross-cutting and interdependent principles:
people-centred, international cooperation, national sovereignty, rule of law and due
process, sustainable development, human rights, gender-responsive, child-sensitive,
whole-of-government approach and whole-of-society approach,
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 t he UN-Women strategic
plan, 2018–2021, 13
Acknowledging also the need to facilitate opportunities for safe, orderly and
regular migration in order to promote a safe environment for migrant workers in all
sectors, including women migrant workers in informal employment,
Emphasizing that violence against women and girls is a major impediment to
the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and
that it violates and impairs or nullifies their full enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms,
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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 69/313, annex.
Resolution 71/1.
UNW/2017/6/Rev.1.
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