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particularly restrictions that require women or girls to obtain permission from male
family members in order to travel;
(p)
Strengthen State oversight and monitoring of private recruitment
agencies and brokers to ensure that overseas employment programmes and work
permits are administered in a manner that respects gender equality and the rights of
migrant women;
(q)
Ensure that migrant women have equal access to legal remedies and
complaint mechanisms, and provide legal, vocational, medical and psychological
assistance to victims of trafficking, particularly female victims;
(r)
Ensure that migrant women and girls have access to education, social
protection, health care, including reproductive health care, and other basic services;
(s)
Establish firewalls between public service providers and immigration
authorities to allow access to justice for migrant women and girls without fear of
being reported, detained or deported;
(t)
Invest in and support the capacity of national agencies to collect and use
sex- and age-disaggregated data on migrants regardless of their migratory status, and
support research initiatives to better understand the impact of migration on women
and girls;
(u)
Conduct awareness-raising campaigns to better uphold the dignity of
migrant women and girls, and to highlight their social and economic contributions to
society;
(v)
Include the protection of the rights of migrant women and girls on the
agenda of intergovernmental dialogues on migration-related issues at the global,
regional and bilateral levels.
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