A/RES/68/137
Violence against women migrant workers
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, 2014–2017, 7 which has among its six goals increasing women’s access to
economic opportunities, and preventing violence against women and girls and
expanding access to services for survivors, and acknowledging the policy and
programmatic work of UN-Women on empowering women migrant workers,
Welcoming the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of
Women during its fifty-seventh session, 8 and taking note, in particular, of the
commitment, as appropriate, to further adopt and implement measures to ensure the
social and legal inclusion and protection of women migrants, including women
migrant workers in countries of origin, transit and destination, promote and protect
the full realization of their human rights and their protection against violence and
exploitation, implement gender-sensitive policies and programmes for women
migrant workers and provide safe and legal channels that recognize their skills and
education, provide fair labour conditions and, as appropriate, facilitate their
productive employment and decent work as well as integration into the labour force,
Recalling the declaration of the United Nations High-level Dialogue on
International Migration and Development, 9 held on 3 and 4 October 2013, which
reaffirmed the need to promote and protect effectively the human rights and
fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status,
especially those of women and children, and to address international migration
through international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and through a
comprehensive and balanced approach, recognizing the roles and responsibilities of
countries of origin, transit and destination in promoting and protecting the human
rights of all migrants and avoiding approaches that might aggravate their
vulnerability,
Recalling also that the declaration recognized that women and girls account
for almost half of all international migrants at the global level and the need to
address the special situation and vulnerability of migrant women and girls by,
inter alia, incorporating a gender perspective into policies and strengthening
national laws, institutions and programmes to combat gender-based violence,
including trafficking in persons and discrimination against them, and emphasized in
this regard the need to establish appropriate measures for the protection of women
migrant workers in all sectors, including those involved in domestic work,
Welcoming the adoption of Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201
on decent work for domestic workers by the International Labour Conference on
16 June 2011, at its 100th session, and the entry of the Convention into force on
5 September 2013, and inviting States to consider ratifying it, encouraging States
parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women 10 to take note of and consider general recommendation No. 26 on women
migrant workers adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
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UNW/2013/6.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 7 (E/2013/27), chap. I,
sect. A.
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Resolution 68/4.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
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