Violence against women migrant workers A/RES/68/137 against Women in November 2008, 11 and encouraging States parties to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 12 to take note of and consider general comment No. 1 on migrant domestic workers adopted by the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in December 2010, 13 acknowledging that they are complementary and mutually reinforcing, Recognizing the increasing participation of women in international migration, driven in large part by socioeconomic factors, and that this feminization of migration requires greater gender sensitivity in all policies and efforts related to the subject of international migration, Stressing the shared responsibility of and need for cooperation among all stakeholders, in particular countries of origin, transit and destination, relevant regional and international organizations, the private sector and civil society, in promoting an environment that prevents and addresses violence against women migrant workers, including in the context of discrimination, through targeted measures, and in this regard recognizing the importance of joint and collaborative approaches and strategies at the national, bilateral, regional and international levels, Recognizing that women migrant workers are important contributors to social and economic development through the economic and social impacts, as a result of their work, on countries of origin and destination, and underlining the value and dignity of their labour, including the labour of domestic workers, Recognizing also the particular vulnerability and needs of women and their children at all stages of the migration process, extending from the moment of deciding to migrate, and including transit, engagement in formal and informal employment and integration into the host society, as well as during their return to and reintegration in their countries of origin, Expressing deep concern at the continuing reports of grave abuses and violence committed against migrant women and girls, including gender-based violence, sexual violence, domestic and family violence, racist and xenophobic acts, discrimination, abusive labour practices, exploitative conditions of work and contemporary forms of slavery, inter alia, all forms of forced labour and trafficking in persons, Recognizing that the intersection of, inter alia, gender, age, class, race and ethnic discrimination and stereotypes can compound the discrimination faced by women migrant workers and that gender-based violence is a form of discrimination, Reaffirming the commitment to protect and promote the human rights of all women, including, without discrimination, indigenous women who migrate for work, and in this regard noting the attention paid in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 14 to the elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against indigenous women, as appropriate, Noting that the priority theme of the fifty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of _______________ 11 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/64/38), part one, annex I, decision 42/I. 12 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481. 13 CMW/C/GC/1. 14 Resolution 61/295, annex. 3/9