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4. Encourages Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, to share
information on violence against women migrant workers with the Special Rapporteur with a view to
requesting the Special Rapporteur to recommend concrete measures and actions to address the problem;
5. Also encourages Governments to give serious consideration to inviting the Special Rapporteur to
visit their countries so as to enable him or her to fulfil the mandate effectively;
6. Urges concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, to
strengthen further their national efforts to protect and promote the rights and welfare of women migrant
workers, including through sustained bilateral, regional, interregional and international cooperation, by
developing strategies and joint action and taking into account the innovative approaches and experiences of
individual Member States, and to establish and maintain continuing dialogues to facilitate the exchange of
information;
7. Also urges concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination,
to support and allocate appropriate resources for programmes aimed at strengthening preventive action, in
particular information for relevant target groups, education and campaigns to increase public awareness of
this issue at the national and grass-roots levels, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations;
8. Encourages Member States to adopt appropriate measures to inform women migrant workers of
their rights and the benefits to which they are entitled;
9. Calls upon concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination,
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, and to encourage non-governmental
organizations to provide, victims of violence with the full range of immediate assistance and protection, such
as counselling, legal and consular assistance, temporary shelter 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 to their countries of origin;
10. Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination,
to support and, if they have not done so, to formulate and implement training programmes for their law
enforcers, prosecutors and service providers with a view to instilling among those public sector workers the
necessary skills and attitude to ensure the delivery of proper and professional interventions for women
migrant workers who are subjected to abuse and violence;
11. Also encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and
destination, to adopt measures or strengthen existing ones to regulate the recruitment and deployment of
women migrant workers, including considering the adoption of appropriate legal measures against
intermediaries who deliberately encourage the clandestine movement of workers and who exploit women
migrant workers;
12. Invites Governments to identify the causes of undocumented migration and its economic, social
and demographic impact, as well as its implications for the formulation and application of social, economic
and migration policies, including those relating to women migrant workers;
13. Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin, transit and
destination, to avail themselves of the expertise of the United Nations, including the Statistics Division of
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