A/69/302
Targets and indicators
68.
Targets should focus on:
(a) Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education for
all, including migrants;
(b) Ensuring equal employment opportunities for women and equal pay for
equal work for all, including migrants;
(c) Ending all violence, including in the workplace, against women and girls,
including migrants, irrespective of their status and circumstances;
(d) Eliminating all forms of discrimination against women and girls,
including migrants, irrespective of their status and circumstances;
(e) Promoting the availability of gender-disaggregated data to improve
gender equality policies, including gender-sensitive budgeting, in particular with
regard to marginalized groups, including migrants.
69.
Indicators should include the proportion of:
(a) Migrant women employed in the informal economy, including those in
precarious employment such as short, part-time, seasonal and casual workers;
(b) Migrant women who have experienced psychological, physical and/or
sexual violence, during the past year or their lifetime, by severity of violence,
relationship to perpetrator, migration status and frequency;
(c) Migrant girls having access to and completing primary and secondary
education and demonstrating relevant learning outcomes, by migration status. 22
8.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and
productive employment and decent work for all
70. Migrants also play an important role in the global economy. They fill labour
shortages, contribute their skills, experience and expertise, send remittances home
and open up new markets in destination countries. People migrate in part because
there is a demand for their labour in destination countries. In many countries, the
competitiveness of several economic sectors, such as agriculture, construc tion,
hospitality, care-giving, fishing and extraction, rests on using what may be termed
“cheap labour”. Given that there are few legal migration channels, however, in
particular for low-skilled workers, many migrants find themselves in an irregular
situation, working in precarious conditions and exploited by recruiters, employers,
smugglers and traffickers (see A/HRC/26/35). The International Labour
Organization estimates that forced labour generates $150 billion per year. 23 Many of
the victims of forced labour are migrants who leave their country of origin owing to
the unrecognized needs in the labour markets in destination countries, given that
migrants are often willing to do the dirty, difficult and dangero us jobs that nationals
will not, at the exploitative wages and labour conditions that unscrupulous
employers will offer.
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See General Assembly resolutions 68/179, para. 5 (e), and 68/4, para. 11.
International Labour Office, Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour
(Geneva, 2014).
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