A/70/310 Banning recruitment fees • Develop measures in consultation with all stakeholders, including migrants and civil society, to create an outright ban on the payment of all types of recruitment fees by migrants. Ensure that the impetus of the implementation of this ban is on Governments and that migrants are not economically penalized if they admit to having paid a fee • Consider options for collective action to totally ban recruitment fees to level the playing field and ensure that concerns about international competitiveness will not impact wholesale transition to an ethical system • Include advocacy of the business case for responsible recruitment practices that prohibit recruitment fees in engagement with the private sector, and involve business associations in the promotion of such a business case Strengthening the overall legal and policy framework in relation to recruitment practices • Standardize contracts for migrant workers within different sectors and at different skills levels. Labour contracts based on such a standardized model should specify the job description, wages and labour conditions • Ensure the total elimination of wage discrimination on the basis of nationality • Abolish “sponsorship” systems whereby migrants are dependent on their employers for residence visas and work permits, and thus vulnerable to abuse and exploitation • Develop legislation that regulates the relationship between recruitment agencies and their agents, their subagents or other forms of subcontractors, such as testing centres. Recruiters should have formal business arrangements in place with all agents and subagents that articulate a clear structure of accountability and liability for business practices • Ensure that the relevant provisions within labour laws and regulation cover all sectors. Ensure that special attention is given to sectors that typically operate outside formal labour regulation, such as domestic work • If not already done, ratify all 10core international human rights instruments, including the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families • Ratify and enact into law the other key international legal standards protecting migrant workers, including ILO Conventions no. 87, 97, 143, 181 and 189, and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the ILO Forced Labour Protocol. Human rights and related labour standards apply to all migrants at every stage of the recruitment process, and are not dependent upon being a citizen of a sovereign territory 15-13569 19/26