Encouraged by some measures adopted by some receiving States to alleviate the plight
of women migrant workers residing within their areas of jurisdiction,
Recognizing the importance of continued cooperation at the bilateral, regional,
interregional and international levels in protecting and promoting the rights and welfare of
women migrant workers,
Noting that women migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to violence,
1.
Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General (E/CN.4/2004/71) and his
report on violence against women migrant workers submitted to the General Assembly at its
fifty-eighth session (A/58/161);
2.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the
human rights of migrants (E/CN.4/2004/76 and Add.1-4), which focuses on an analysis of the
situation of women migrant domestic workers;
3.
Calls upon all Governments to take all necessary measures to ensure the full
enjoyment of human rights by women migrant workers and encourages Governments to seek
ways to eliminate causes that put them at risk;
4.
Also calls upon concerned Governments, in particular those of countries of
origin and destination, if they have not yet done so, to put in place penal sanctions to punish
traffickers and perpetrators of violence against women migrant workers and, to the extent
possible, to provide the victims of violence and trafficking with the full range of immediate
assistance, such as counselling, legal and consular assistance, temporary shelter and other
measures that will allow them to be present during the judicial process, to safeguard their
dignified return to the country of origin as well as to establish reintegration and rehabilitation
schemes for returning women migrant workers;
5.
Invites the States concerned, specifically countries of origin and destination, to
consider adopting appropriate legal measures against intermediaries who deliberately
encourage the clandestine movement of workers and who exploit women migrant workers in
violation of their human dignity;
6.
Reaffirms emphatically the duty of States parties to the Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations of 1963 to ensure full respect for and observance of the Convention, in
particular article 36 with regard to the right of foreign nationals, regardless of their
immigration status, to communicate with a consular official of their own State in the case of
detention, and the obligation of the State in whose territory the detention occurs to inform the
foreign national of that right;
7.
Encourages 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, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime and its two additional protocols, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by
Land, Sea and Air, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
especially Women and Children, as well as the Slavery Convention of 1926;
8.
Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its sixty-second session
under the appropriate agenda item.
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