A/RES/74/127
Violence against women migrant workers
25. Urges States to recognize the significant contributions and leadership of
women in migrant communities and to take appropriate step s to promote their full,
equal and meaningful participation in the development of local solutions and
opportunities, and to recognize the importance of protecting labour rights and a safe
environment for women migrant workers in all sectors, including those in informal
employment, including through fair and ethical recruitment and the prevention of
exploitation, and to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration, as well as labour
mobility;
26. Urges States that have not yet done so to adopt and implement legislation
and policies that protect all women migrant workers, including those in domestic
work, to include therein, and improve where necessary, relevant monitoring and
inspection measures, in line with applicable International Labour Organization
conventions and other instruments to ensure compliance with international
obligations and to grant women migrant workers in domestic service access to gendersensitive, transparent mechanisms for bringing complaints against recruitment
agencies and employers, including terminating their contracts in the event of labour
and economic exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and sexual
abuse in the workplace, while stressing that such instruments should not punish
women migrant workers, and calls upon States to promptly investigate and punish all
violations of their rights;
27. Encourages States to consider ensuring that all women migrant workers,
regardless of their migration status, can exercise their human rights through safe
access to basic services, notwithstanding that nationals and regular migrants may be
entitled to more comprehensive service provision, while ensuring that any differential
treatment must be based on law, be proportionate and pursue a legitimate aim, in
accordance with international human rights law;
28. Urges Governments to support enhanced reception and reintegration
assistance for those who return, with particular attention to the needs of victims of
trafficking in persons and of migrants in vulnerable situations, inter al ia, children,
older women and women with disabilities;
29. Urges States to adopt national gender-responsive migration policies and
legislation, in line with relevant obligations under international law, to protect the
human rights of all migrant women and girls, regardless of migration status; recognize
the skills and education of women migrant workers to promote their economic
empowerment in all sectors and, as appropriate, facilitate their productive
employment, decent work and integration into the labour force, including in the fields
of education and science and technology; recognize the importance of protecting
labour rights and a safe environment for women migrant workers and those in
precarious employment, including preventing and addressing abuse a nd exploitation,
protecting women migrant workers in all sectors and promoting labour mobility;
provide newly arrived migrant women with targeted, gender-responsive, childsensitive, accessible and comprehensive information and legal guidance on their
rights and obligations, including on compliance with national and local laws,
obtaining work and resident permits, status adjustments, registration with authorities,
access to justice to file complaints about rights violations, as well as access to basic
services; encourage cooperation among various stakeholders, including countries of
origin, transit and destination, in ensuring that migrant women and girls have
adequate identification and the provision of relevant documents to facilitate access to
social protection mechanisms; and facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning
migrant women and girls by providing them with equal access to social protection
and services;
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