United Nations
A/RES/56/131
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 112
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/576)]
56/131. Violence against women migrant workers
The General Assembly,
Recalling all of its previous resolutions on violence against women migrant
workers and those adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, the
Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against
Women, 1
Reaffirming the outcome of the World Conference on Human Rights, 2 the
International Conference on Population and Development, 3 the Fourth World
Conference on Women 4 and the World Summit for Social Development 5 and their
five-year reviews, specifically as the results pertain to women migrant workers,
Noting the various activities initiated by entities in the United Nations system,
such as the expert group meeting organized by the International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and the International
Organization for Migration, held at Geneva in August 1999, the international
workshop on best practices concerning migrant workers and their families initiated
by the International Organization for Migration, held at Santiago in June 2000, and
the seminar on women immigrants organized by the United Nations Development
Fund for Women and the Argentine National Institute against Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Racism, held at Buenos Aires in July 2001, as well as other
activities that continue to assess and alleviate the plight of women migrant workers,
Emphasizing the need for objective, comprehensive, broad-based information,
possibly including a database for research and analysis, and a wide exchange of
experience and lessons learned by individual Member States and civil society in the
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1
See resolution 48/104.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
4
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
5
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
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