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Requests all Governments to continue to cooperate fully with the Special
Rapporteurs mentioned in paragraph 3 above in the performance of their tasks and
mandated duties, including by making available to them requested information on
violence against women migrant workers and by reacting promptly to their urgent
appeals, and encourages Governments to give serious consideration to inviting them
to visit their countries;
Calls upon all Governments to incorporate a human rights and gender
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perspective in legislation and policies on international migration and on labour and
employment, inter alia, for the prevention and protection of migrant women from
violence and discrimination, exploitation and abuse, and to take effective measures
to ensure that these do not reinforce discrimination and bias against women;
Calls upon Governments to adopt or strengthen measures to protect the
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human rights of women migrant workers, regardless of their immigration status,
including in policies that regulate the recruitment and deployment of women
migrant workers, and to consider expanding dialogue among States on devising
innovative methods to promote legal channels of migration, inter alia, in order to
deter illegal migration;
Urges Governments to enhance bilateral, regional, interregional and
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international cooperation to address violence against women migrant workers, fully
respecting international law, including international human rights law, as well as to
strengthen efforts in reducing the vulnerability of women migrant workers,
including by fostering sustainable development alternatives to migration in
countries of origin;
Also urges Governments to adopt or strengthen measures to promote and
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protect the human rights of migrant girls, including unaccompanied girls, regardless
of their immigration status, to prevent their labour and economic exploitation,
discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and sexual abuse in the workplace,
including domestic work;
10. Further urges Governments, in cooperation with international
organizations, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the
private sector, to strengthen the focus on and funding support for the prevention of
violence against women migrant workers, in particular by promoting the access of
women to meaningful and gender-sensitive information and education on, inter alia,
the costs and benefits of migration, rights and benefits to which they are entitled in
the countries of origin and employment, overall conditions in countries of
employment and procedures for legal migration, as well as to ensure that laws and
policies governing recruiters, employers and intermediaries promote adherence to
and respect for the human rights of migrant workers, particularly women;
11. Calls upon Governments, in cooperation with international organizations,
non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders, to
provide women migrant workers who are victims of violence with the full range of
immediate assistance and protection, such as access to counselling, legal and
consular assistance and temporary shelter, as well as mechanisms to allow the views
and concerns of victims to be presented and considered at appropriate stages of
proceedings, including other measures that will allow victims to be present during
the judicial process, to the extent possible, as well as to establish reintegration and
rehabilitation schemes for returning women migrant workers;
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