A/70/310 • Ensure implementation of the 2011 United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, by taking concrete steps to implement the United Nations Respect, Protect and Remedy Framework in relation to migrant workers • Develop country-level and regional policies on tackling exploitative and abusive recruitment practices, which bring together the perspectives of the multiple stakeholders involved in the recruitment process, articulate a clear vision for eliminating abuse and exploitation, and precisely define the roles and responsibilities within the complex network of actors who contribute to international recruitment • Invest in the effective evaluation of policies relating to recruitment fees and migrant workers to ensure robust and evidence-led policymaking at the national, regional and international levels, including through external independent auditing mechanisms • Examine examples of good practice within the current system, and develop strategies for how these can be replicated and built upon to support wholesale transition to an ethical system • Ensure that strong gender analysis is included within all laws and policies to ensure protections for the additional vulnerability of many female migrant workers. Such protections should, however, never limit the economic opportunities or freedom of movement of women Effective regulation, oversight and enforcement of the law • Develop fully robust, transparent and publically accountable licensing systems for recruitment companies. Recruitment companies seeking licences must be subject to rigorous human rights and labour law due diligence. Companies licensed to provide recruitment services to migrants should be subject to ongoing regulation and monitoring in relation to human rights impact • Require recruitment agencies who facilitate the employment of migrants abroad to be licensed in both countries of origin and destination in order to ensure more effective bilateral oversight of recruitment practices • Revoke the licences of recruitment agencies that charge fees to migrants and/or are proven to have abused the human or labour rights of migrants. Licences should be subject to regular renewal with compliance with human rights obligations being essential for reissuing of licences • Ensure controls are in place to prevent the re-registration of unscrupulous agencies following having had their licence revoked. Develop a rating scheme, which assesses the conduct of recruitment agencies against human rights and labour standards, so that migrants are empowered to avoid unscrupulous agents and there is a market incentive for agencies to comply with human rights and labour rights • As part of this rating scheme, develop and maintain a blacklist of unethical agencies, which exploit and/or facilitate broader human rights and labour law abuses 20/26 15-13569