A/RES/58/143
12. 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, and to consider
the adoption of appropriate legal measures against intermediaries who deliberately
encourage the clandestine movement of workers and who exploit women migrant
workers;
13. 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;
14. 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 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 analysis of the subject;
15. Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or acceding
to relevant 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, as well as the
Slavery Convention of 1926; 10
16. Welcomes the imminent entry into force of the Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, 11 and the adoption by the General Assembly of the Protocol against the
Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,11 and encourages Governments
to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Protocols;
17. Encourages the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women to consider developing a general recommendation on the situation of
women migrant workers;
18. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixtieth session 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, as well as the International
Organization for Migration and other relevant sources, including non-governmental
organizations.
77th plenary meeting
22 December 2003
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861.
See resolution 55/25.
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