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6. 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,7 as well
as the Slavery Convention of 1926;8
7. Invites all relevant United Nations human rights treaty bodies, in particular the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women, relevant thematic and country rapporteurs, in particular the
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and
consequences, the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and its
working groups, within their respective mandates, to address the problem of violence against women migrant
workers in their deliberations and findings, with a view to promoting and protecting their rights and welfare;
8. Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to address the issue of violence against women
migrant workers at its forty-second session under the thematic issues on violence against women and/or
human rights of women;
9. Invites the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on Human Rights, at their sessions
in 1998, to address the protection and promotion of the rights and welfare of women migrant workers in
connection with the five-year review of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 2 and the
commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;9
10. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session a
comprehensive report on the problem of violence against women migrant workers, taking into account the
views of Member States and based on the expertise and all available 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, the International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, the International Organization for Migration and other
relevant sources, including non-governmental organizations, as well as to report on the implementation of
the present resolution.
70th plenary meeting
12 December 1997
7
Resolution 45/158, annex.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861.
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Resolution 217 A (III).