A/78/180 14. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women provides additional guidance on addressing varying forms of injustice and rights abuses faced by women. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, in its general recommendation No. 26 (2008) on women migrant workers provides specific guidance on protecting migrant women workers rights. This includes the right to private and family life, the principle of the best interests of the child, the right to health, the principle of equality and non- discrimination and the principle of non-refoulement. 15. Article 5 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination indicates that States must undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin and to equality before the law, as well as other labour protections including the rights to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work, to protection against unemployment, to equal pay for equal work and to just and favourable remuneration. It also establishes the right to form and join trade unions, the right to housing and the right to public health, medical care, social security and social services, inter alia. These protections are also reiterated in the International Convention on the Protection of Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families. 16. The International Labour Organization (ILO) Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) extends the scope of equality between legally resident migrant workers and national workers to ensure equal opportunities and treatment with regard to employment and occupation, social security, trade union and cultural rights and individual and collective freedoms for migrant workers and their families. It also contains provisions for ratifying States to help facilitate family reunification for the families of migrant workers to legally reside in the host State. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime developed the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Childr en, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, in which it recognizes the potential for abuse and exploitation to occur with migrant workers and seeks to establish reporting mechanisms, such as the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, as well as providing guidance on protecting migrant workers’ rights in employment. 17. Under the ILO Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97) States are required to develop effective mechanisms to facilitate international migration for employment by establishing and maintaining a free assistance and information service for migrant workers and taking measures against misleading propaganda on labour migration. The Convention also contains provisions on access to appropriate medical services for migrant workers as well as on ensuring the transfer of the workers’ earnings and savings. States are required to apply the same treatment to migrant workers as applied to their own citizens in relation to issues including, but not limited to, conditions of employment, freedom of association and social security. 18. The need for workers to organize and collectively bargain with their employers is recognized under the ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190), which includes specific protections to address migrant workers’ exposure to violence in the workplace. 19. Several additional instruments of relevance include: the Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention 1947 (No. 86); the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105); the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181); the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138); the 23-13823 5/21