A/HRC/41/38 23. In its general comment No. 1 (2011) on domestic migrant workers, the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families comprehensively addressed violations of social, economic, cultural, civil, political and labour rights. It called for the promotion and protection of the rights of domestic workers at all stages, decent work for them, and proper regulation of that work in national labour legislation, so as to ensure that domestic workers enjoy the same level of protection as other workers and have effective access to justice and remedies. 24. The right of everyone to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work is recognized in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other international and regional human rights treaties, and in other relevant international legal instruments, including conventions and recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO). That right is an important component of other labour rights enshrined in the Covenant and the corollary of the right to work as freely chosen and accepted, contained in article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. C. 1. Other relevant intergovernmental agreements and initiatives 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 25. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is grounded in international human rights law. Its 17 Sustainable Development Goals have the aim of realizing the human rights of all persons, while Goal 5 has an emphasis on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Achieving Goal 5, that is, achieving gender equality, will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals and their targets, including Goal 8 to promote economic growth and decent work for all, and Goal 10 to reduce inequality within and among countries, and particularly target 10.7 to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people. 2. New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration 26. In paragraphs 23 and 31 of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the General Assembly recognized the specific vulnerabilities of women on the move and expressed its commitment to ensure that responses mainstream a gender perspective, promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and respect and protect their rights. It also recognized, in paragraph 31, the significant contribution and leadership of women in refugee and migrant communities, and committed to ensuring women’s full and meaningful participation in the development of local solutions. 27. Set in motion by the adoption of the New York Declaration, a process of intergovernmental consultations and negotiations on migration concluded with the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration. Gender responsiveness is established in the Compact as one of its guiding principles. States are called upon to ensure that the human rights of women, men, girls and boys are respected at all stages of migration, their specific needs are properly understood and addressed, and they are empowered as agents of change. Under the Compact, a gender perspective is mainstreamed, and gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is promoted, with recognition of “their independence, agency and leadership in order to move away from addressing migrant women primarily through a lens of victimhood”. 3. Bilateral and multilateral agreements and initiatives 28. While the Special Rapporteur does not analyse the compliance of bilateral and multilateral agreements or initiatives with international human rights standards in the present report, he recognizes that such agreements and initiatives are important spaces for intergovernmental exchange relating to gender and migration. Several regional, transregional and international forums have the aim of addressing specific issues relating to gender and migration, such as the Colombo Process, the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, the Ibero-American Forum on Migration and Development and the Global 7