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Violence against women migrant workers 1996, para. 9
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- Welcomes the scheduled holding from 27 to 31 May 1996 of a United Nations expert group meeting on the issue of violence against women migrant workers, with the participation of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 50/168, to submit recommendations for improving coordination of the various efforts of United Nations organizations on the issue of violence against women migrant workers, and to develop concrete indicators as a basis for determining the situation of women migrant workers, for submission, through normal channels, to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the thematic issues before the Commission on the Status of Women;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 11
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- Requests the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and other relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within the context of the country cooperation and development assistance framework, to support national measures, in both sending and receiving countries, designed to strengthen preventive action, in particular education and information campaigns to increase awareness of the issue of violence against women migrant workers, and to ensure adequate briefing and training of prospective women migrant workers on the laws, culture, working and living conditions, possible problems, coping mechanisms and support services in the receiving countries;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 6
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- Invites Member States and non-governmental organizations to contribute to the proposed database of good practices and lessons learned on all forms of violence against women, information on bilateral and multilateral agreements, national experiences and lessons learned, initiatives and projects that have proved viable and effective in evolving national strategies and strengthening bilateral, regional and international cooperation for dealing with violence against women migrant workers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1994, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Calls victimization of women migrant workers by traffickers and to penalize those traffickers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1994
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States Members of the United Nations to adopt measures for the effective implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, including applying them to migrant women workers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 7
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- Calls upon concerned Governments, particularly of sending and receiving countries, 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 victims of violence with the full range of immediate assistance, such as counselling, legal and consular assistance, temporary shelters 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 16
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- Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its fortieth session a copy of his report to the General Assembly on violence against women migrant workers, which should include the reports to be submitted by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, the Centre for Human Rights, relevant United Nations functional bodies and organizations, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1996, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon Governments to adopt and/or implement and periodically review and analyse legislation to ensure its effectiveness in eliminating violence against women, emphasizing the prevention of violence and the prosecution of offenders, and to take measures to ensure the protection of women subjected to violence, access to just and effective remedies, including compensation and indemnification and healing of victims, and the rehabilitation of perpetrators;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1996, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Recommends to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, as well as all relevant bodies and programmes in the United Nations system, when addressing the issue of violence against women, to give particular attention to the issue of violence perpetrated against women migrant workers, and to provide information to the Secretary-General for inclusion in his report to the General Assembly;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1994, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States Members of the United Nations to adopt measures for the effective implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, including applying it to migrant women workers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1994
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1997, para. 3
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- Requests the Secretary-General to take into account and to reflect in his thematic report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-second session the various major findings and recommendations from all reports of the Secretary-General submitted to the General Assembly on the issue of violence against women migrant workers, in order for the Commission to make recommendations on the issue;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Secretary-General to take into account the relevant provisions contained in the present resolution in preparing, for submission to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session, the report on the problem of violence against women migrant workers requested by the Assembly in paragraph 10 of its resolution 52/97.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Invites Governments, in cooperation with relevant United Nations bodies, other intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, to undertake further research on the causes and consequences of violence against women migrant workers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Integration of displaced rural women into development processes 1995, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Appeals to Governments to pay special attention to the situation of rural women, with emphasis on those who are displaced from their place of origin owing to terrorist violence, drug trafficking or other causes related to situations of violence;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 11
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1994, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Invites the Special Rapporteur on violence against women to include among the urgent issues pertaining to her or his mandate the violence perpetrated against women migrant workers, and to furnish a copy of her or his first report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-ninth session, as well as copies of subsequent reports to the corresponding succeeding sessions of the Commission;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1994
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 12
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- Reiterates the recommendation of the General Assembly, contained in its resolution 48/110 of 20 December 1993, that the Fourth World Conference on Women, which is to be held at Beijing in September 1995, address the issue of violence against women migrant workers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States to explore the possibility of adopting measures to prevent the victimization of women migrant workers by sexual traffickers and to penalize those traffickers, including ratifying the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 5
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- Invites concerned States parties, particularly of sending and receiving countries, to include in their periodic reports to relevant human rights treaty bodies, updated and comprehensive information on actions they have taken to address the problem of violence against women migrant workers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1996, para. 5
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- Recognizes the vulnerability to violence and other forms of abuse of women migrants, including women migrant workers whose legal status in the host country depends on the employers who may exploit their situation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1997, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Notes the convening of the United Nations expert group meeting on violence against women migrant workers, which was held at Manila from 27 to 31 May 1996;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1997, para. 4
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- Decides to remain seized of this matter.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1994, para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its thirty-ninth session a copy of his report to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session, relative to violence against women migrant workers, which should include the reports to be submitted by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Centre for Human Rights, relevant United Nations functional bodies and specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1994
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1996, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States Members of the United Nations to adopt measures for the effective implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, including applying them to women migrant workers, as well as all relevant measures emanating from recent world conferences;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1996, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States to explore the possibility of adopting measures to prevent the victimization of women migrant workers by sexual traffickers and to penalize those traffickers, including the ratification of the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1998, para. 9a
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- [Stresses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur that States have an affirmative duty to promote and protect the human rights of women and must exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women, including violence against women in times of armed conflict, violence against women in custody and violence against refugee and internally displaced women, and calls upon States:] To work actively to ratify and/or implement international human rights norms and instruments as they relate to violence against women, and to comply with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1998, para. 9d
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- [Stresses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur that States have an affirmative duty to promote and protect the human rights of women and must exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women, including violence against women in times of armed conflict, violence against women in custody and violence against refugee and internally displaced women, and calls upon States:] To enact and, where necessary, reinforce or amend penal, civil, labour and administrative sanctions in domestic legislation to punish and redress the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the workplace, the community or society, in custody or in situations of armed conflict, and to ensure that they conform with relevant international human rights instruments and humanitarian law;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1998, para. 9e
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur that States have an affirmative duty to promote and protect the human rights of women and must exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women, including violence against women in times of armed conflict, violence against women in custody and violence against refugee and internally displaced women, and calls upon States:] To adopt laws, where necessary, and reinforce existing laws that punish police, security forces or any other agents of the State who engage in acts of violence against women in the course of the performance of their duties, and to review existing legislation and take effective measures against the perpetrators of such violence;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 2004, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Takes note of the note by the Secretary General (E/CN.4/2004/71) and his report on violence against women migrant workers submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty eighth session (A/58/161);
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2004
Paragraph