Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, 9/ Welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 13/ Welcoming also the decision of the Commission on Human Rights at its fiftieth session to appoint, for a three-year period, a Special Rapporteur on violence against women, including its causes and its consequences, who will report to the Commission on an annual basis, beginning at its fifty-first session, 14/ Noting the measures adopted by some receiving States to alleviate the plight of some women migrant workers residing within their areas of jurisdiction, Noting also the increasing number of women of migrant workers, Concerned about the continuing reports of violence against women migrant workers, including the victimization of a large number of them by traffickers, 1. Calls upon States Members of the United Nations to adopt measures for the effective implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, including applying it to migrant women workers; 2. Also calls upon the States concerned, specifically the sending and receiving States of women migrant workers, to conduct regular consultations for the purpose of identifying problem areas in promoting and protecting the rights of women migrant workers and in ensuring health and social services for them, adopting specific measures to address these problems, setting up, as necessary, appropriate mechanisms to implement these measures, and, in general, creating conditions that foster greater harmony and tolerance between women migrant workers and the rest of the society in which they reside; 3. Urges States Members of the United Nations, particularly those from which women migrant workers originate and those which play host to them, to ensure the protection of the rights and fundamental freedoms of women migrant workers as defined by international conventions and agreements, specially those under the aegis of the International Labour Organization, if needed, by the adoption of legal measures; 4. Encourages Member 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; 25/ 5. Calls upon States concerned to adopt effective measures to prevent the victimization of women migrant workers by traffickers and to penalize those traffickers; 6. Invites the Special Rapporteur on violence against women to include among the urgent issues pertaining to her or his mandate the violence perpetrated against women migrant workers, and to furnish a copy of her or his first report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-ninth session, as well as copies of subsequent reports to the corresponding succeeding sessions of the Commission; 25/ General Assembly resolution 45/158, annex. -22-