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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 analyses on the
subject;
14. Encourages Member States to consider ratifying and complying with 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,7 as well as the
Slavery Convention of 1926;8
15. Encourages the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to consider
developing a general recommendation on the situation of women migrant workers;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session a report
on the problem of violence against women migrant workers and on the implementation of the present
resolution, taking into account updated information from the organizations of the United Nations system, in
particular the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the United
Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women, and the International Organization for Migration and other relevant sources,
including non-governmental organizations.
83rd plenary meeting
17 December 1999
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