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workers of their rights and the benefits to which they are entitled, and encourages
other Member States to adopt appropriate measures in this regard;
10. Calls upon concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries
of origin and destination, if they have not done so, to put in place penal and criminal
sanctions to punish perpetrators of violence against women migrant workers and, to
the extent possible, to provide, and to encourage non-governmental organizations to
provide, victims of violence with the full range of immediate assistance and
protection, such as counselling, legal and consular assistance, temporary shelter and
other measures that will allow them to be present during the judicial process, as well
as to establish reintegration and rehabilitation schemes for returning women migrant
workers to their countries of origin;
11. Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries
of origin and destination, to support and, if they have not done so, to formulate and
implement training programmes for their law enforcers, prosecutors and service
providers with a view to instilling among those public-sector workers the necessary
skills and attitude to ensure the delivery of proper and professional interventions for
women migrant workers who are subjected to abuse and violence;
12. Also encourages concerned Governments to adopt measures or
strengthen existing ones that protect the human rights of women migrant workers,
regardless of their immigration status, including, inter alia, in policies that regulate
the recruitment and deployment of women migrant workers and appropriate legal
measures against intermediaries who deliberately encourage the clandestine
movement of workers and who exploit women migrant workers, so as to reduce the
vulnerability of migrant women to exploitation, ill treatment and trafficking, and to
consider expanding dialogue among States on devising innovative methods to
promote legal channels of migration, inter alia, in order to deter illegal migration;
13. Invites Governments, the United Nations system and non-governmental
organizations to cooperate towards a better understanding of the problems of women
and international migration, including to improve the collection, dissemination and
analysis of the kind of data that can explain the causes and consequences of those
problems, explore the links between migration and trafficking, and identify the
causes of undocumented migration and its economic, social and demographic
impact, as well as its implications for the formulation and application of social,
economic and migration policies, including those relating to women migrant
workers;
14. Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries
of origin, transit and destination, to avail themselves of the expertise of the United
Nations, including the Statistics Division of the Secretariat and other relevant
bodies, such as the International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women, to develop appropriate national data-collection
methodologies that will generate comparable data on violence against women
migrant workers as bases for research and analysis of the subject;
15. Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or acceding
to relevant International Labour Organization conventions and to consider signing
and ratifying or acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, as well as all human
rights treaties that contribute to the protection of the rights of women migrant
workers;
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