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the prosecution of offenders, and to take measures to ensure the protection of
women subjected to violence and their access to just and effective remedies,
including compensation and indemnification and healing of victims, and for the
rehabilitation of perpetrators;
5.
Invites Member States concerned, specifically the sending and
receiving States, to consider adopting appropriate legal measures against
intermediaries who deliberately encourage the clandestine movement of workers
and who exploit women migrant workers;
6.
Reiterates the need for 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 ensuring health, legal and
social services for them, adopting specific measures to address those
problems, setting up, as necessary, linguistically and culturally accessible
services and 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;
7.
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,8 as well as the Slavery
Convention of 1926;9
8.
Requests 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, its causes and
consequences, 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;
9.
Invites Member States, as well as relevant international
organizations, to provide their views and comments to the Secretary-General on
the issue of indicators as a basis for addressing the situation of women
migrant workers, as set forth in the report of the Secretary-General;
10.
Also invites the Administrative Committee on Coordination, within
its mandate, to examine how to improve coordination within the United Nations
system on the question of violence against women migrant workers;
11.
Invites the regional commissions and the regional offices of the
International Labour Organization to examine ways and means, within their
mandates, of dealing with concerns pertaining to women migrant workers;
12.
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly
at its fifty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution,
including the reports received from all authorities and bodies of the United
Nations system, Member States, intergovernmental organizations and other
8
Resolution 45/158, annex.
9
See Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.XIV.1 (vol. I, Part I)).
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