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12. Also calls upon Governments, in particular those of the countries of
origin and destination, to put in place penal and criminal sanctions to punish
perpetrators and intermediaries of violence against women migrant workers, and
redress and justice mechanisms that victims can access effectively, as well as to
ensure that migrant women victims of violence do not suffer from re-victimization,
including by authorities;
13. Urges all States to adopt effective measures to put an end to the arbitrary
arrest and detention of women migrant workers and to take action to prevent and
punish any form of illegal deprivation of the liberty of women migrant workers by
individuals or groups;
14. Encourages Governments to formulate and implement training
programmes for their law enforcers, immigration officers and border officials,
prosecutors and service providers with a view to sensitizing those public-sector
workers to the issue of violence against women migrant workers and imparting to
them the necessary skills and attitude to ensure the delivery of proper, professional
and gender-sensitive interventions;
15. Invites Governments, the United Nations system and other concerned
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to cooperate towards a
better understanding of the issues concerning women and international migration,
and to improve the collection, dissemination and analysis of sex- and
age-disaggregated data and information in order to assist in the formulation of
migration and labour policies that are, inter alia, gender-sensitive and that protect
human rights, as well as to aid in policy assessment;
16. Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries
of origin, transit and destination, to avail themselves of the expertise of the United
Nations, including the Statistics Division of the Secretariat, the United Nations
Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute
for the Advancement of Women, to develop appropriate national data-collection and
analysis methodologies that will generate comparable data and tracking and
reporting systems on violence against women migrant workers;
17. Encourages the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women to continue its work on a general recommendation on the situation of
women migrant workers;
18. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fourth session on the problem of violence against women migrant workers and
on the implementation of the present resolution, taking into account updated
information from the organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the
International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Programme,
the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime, as well as the reports of the Special Rapporteurs mentioned in
paragraph 3 above, and other relevant sources, such as the International
Organization for Migration, including non-governmental organizations.
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