Violence against women migrant workers A/RES/74/127 Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 28 the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 29 the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 30 and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 31 as well as all other human rights treaties that contribute to the protection of the rights of women migrant workers, calls upon States parties to comply with their relevant obligations under international law, and encourages Member States to implement the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons; 32 4. Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the human rights of migrants submitted to the Council at its forty-first session, entitled “The impact of migration on migrant women and girls: a gender perspective”; 33 5. Recalls the adoption of the New Urban Agenda at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016, 34 in which Member States committed to recognizing the contribution of the working poor in the informal economy, particularly women migrant workers, to the urban economies; 6. Encourages all United Nations agencies and special rapporteurs on human rights whose mandates touch on the issues of violence against women migrant workers to improve the collection of information on and analysis of those areas within their mandates relating to the current challenges facing women migrant workers, including in supply chains, and also encourages Governments to cooperate with the agencies and special rapporteurs in this regard; 7. Calls upon all Governments to incorporate a human rights, genderresponsive and people-centred perspective in legislation, policies and programmes on international migration and on labour and employment, consistent with their human rights obligations and commitments under human rights instruments, for the prevention of and protection of migrant women against violence and discrimin ation, trafficking in persons, exploitation and abuse, to take effective measures to ensure that such migration and labour policies do not reinforce discrimination, and, where necessary, to conduct impact assessment studies of such legislation, policies an d programmes, and to take into account the need for effective and meaningful participation of women migrant workers and relevant civil society organizations, as appropriate, in the formulation of such policies and programmes ; 8. Calls upon Governments to adopt or strengthen measures to protect the human rights of women migrant workers, including domestic workers, regardless of their migratory status, including in policies that regulate the recruitment and deployment of women migrant workers, to consider expanding dialogue among States on devising innovative methods to promote legal channels of migration in order to deter irregular migration, to consider incorporating a gender perspective into immigration laws in order to prevent discrimination and violence against women, including in independent, circular and temporary migration, and to consider permitting, in accordance with national legislation, women migrant workers who are __________________ 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 19-22222 Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574. Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574. Ibid., vol. 360, No. 5158. Ibid., vol. 989, No. 14458. Resolution 64/293. A/HRC/41/38. Resolution 71/256, annex. 7/13