United Nations
A/RES/62/132
General Assembly
Distr.: General
31 January 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 63 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/433 (Part II))]
62/132. 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
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Reaffirming the provisions concerning women migrant workers contained in
the outcome documents 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,
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Noting with appreciation the various activities initiated by entities of the
United Nations system, such as the Regional Programme on Empowering Women
Migrant Workers in Asia of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the
high-level panel discussion on the gender dimensions of international migration
held by the Commission on the Status of Women at its fiftieth session, and the
discussions held by the Commission at its fifty-first session, during which it took
note, inter alia, of the particular situation of girl migrants, and noting the
contribution of the International Labour Organization through the development of
a Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration, as well as other activities through
which the plight of women migrant workers continues to be assessed and
alleviated,
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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.
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