4.
Recommends that the Economic and Social Council adopt the draft
decision entitled "Renewal of the mandate of the Open-ended Working Group on the
Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women".25
Resolution 41/4.
Violence against women migrant workers*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Bearing in mind the Charter of the United Nations, which reaffirms faith in
human rights and fundamental freedoms, in the dignity and worth of the human
person, and in the equal rights of women and men,
Reaffirming the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights26 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women,27
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 47/96 of 16 December 1992, 48/110 of
20 December 1993, 49/165 of 23 December 1994, 50/168 of 22 December 1995 and
51/65 of 12 December 1996 and Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 38/7
of 18 March 1994,28 39/7 of 31 March 199529 and 40/6 of 22 March 1996,30 as
well as the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women adopted by
the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session,31 and general recommendation
19 on violence against women of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women,
Recalling also the conclusions and recommendations of recent international
conferences, including the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna in
June 1993, the International Conference on Population and Development, held at
Cairo in September 1994, the World Summit for Social Development, held at
Copenhagen in March 1995, and the Fourth World Conference on Women, held at
Beijing in September 1995, on the promotion and protection of the rights and
fundamental freedoms of women, including women migrant workers,
Acknowledging the valuable contribution made by Governments and concerned
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to the promotion and
protection of the enjoyment by women migrant workers of their human rights and
fundamental freedoms,
* For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 139-143.
25
For the text of the draft decision, see chap. I, sect. B, draft
decision I.
26
General Assembly resolution 217 A.
27
General Assembly resolution 34/180, annex.
28
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1994, Supplement
No. 7 (E/1994/27), chap. I, sect. C.
29
Ibid., 1995, Supplement No. 6 (E/1995/26), chap. I, sect. C.
30
Ibid., 1996, Supplement No. 6 (E/1996/26), chap. I, sect. C.2.
31
General Assembly resolution 48/104.
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