5.
Invites States concerned, specifically the sending and receiving States of women migrant
workers, to conduct regular consultations for the purpose of identifying problem areas in promoting and
protecting the rights of women migrant workers and in ensuring health and social services for them, adopting
specific measures to address those problems, setting up, as necessary, appropriate mechanisms to implement
those measures, and, in general, creating conditions that foster greater harmony and tolerance between women
migrant workers and the rest of the society in which they reside;
6.
Calls upon the countries concerned to take appropriate measures to ensure that law-enforcement
officials assist in guaranteeing the full protection of the rights of women migrant workers, consistent with
international obligations of Member States;
7.
Urges both sending and host countries to help ensure that women migrant workers are protected
from unscrupulous recruitment practices and, if needed, by the adoption of legal measures;
8.
Encourages Member States 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;
9.
Invites trade unions to support the realization of the rights of women migrant workers by
assisting them in organizing themselves so as to enable them better to assert their rights;
10.
Calls upon relevant bodies and specialized agencies of the United Nations system,
intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to inform the Secretary-General of the
extent of the problem and to recommend further measures to achieve the purposes of the present resolution;
11.
Requests treaty-monitoring bodies and non-governmental organizations concerned with
violence against women to include, where appropriate, the situation of women migrant workers in their
deliberations and findings and to supply relevant information to United Nations bodies and Governments;
12.
Calls upon relevant specialized agencies of the United Nations system, intergovernmental
bodies and non-governmental organizations concerned, in cooperation with both the sending and the host
countries, to conduct seminars and training programmes on human rights instruments, particularly those
pertaining to migrant workers;
13.
Invites all States to adopt, with the support of relevant non-governmental organizations,
appropriate measures to provide support services to women migrant workers who have become traumatized as a
consequence of violation of their rights by, inter alia, unscrupulous employers and/or recruiters, to provide
resources for their physical and psychological rehabilitation and to facilitate their return to their countries of
origin;
14.
Invites the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women:
Action for Equality, Development and Peace and the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime
and the Treatment of Offenders to consider including in their respective programmes of action the subject of the
traffic in women and girls;
15.
Invites the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women
to continue to include among the urgent issues pertaining to her mandate the violence perpetrated against women
migrant workers and to consider including her findings in her report to the Commission on Human Rights at its
fifty-second session;
16.
Decides to continue to consider the question at its fifty-second session under the agenda item
entitled "Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers".
42nd meeting
24 February 1995
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XIII. E/CN.4/1995/176]
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