A/RES/68/137
Violence against women migrant workers
enforcement, prosecution, prevention, capacity-building and victim protection and
support, by exchanging information and good practices in combating violence and
discrimination against women migrant workers and by fostering sustainable
development alternatives to migration in countries of origin;
Also urges Governments to take into account the best interests of the
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child by adopting or strengthening measures to promote and protect the human
rights of migrant girls, including unaccompanied girls, regardless of their
immigration status, so as to prevent labour and economic exploitation,
discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and sexual abuse in the workplace,
including in domestic work;
Further urges Governments to strongly encourage all stakeholders,
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especially the private sector, including employment agencies involved in recruiting
women migrant workers, 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;
10. Encourages all States to remove obstacles that may prevent the
transparent, safe, unrestricted and expeditious transfer of remittances of migrants to
their countries of origin or to any other countries, including, where appropriate, by
reducing transaction costs and implementing woman-friendly remittance transfer,
savings and investment schemes, including diaspora investment schemes, in
conformity with applicable national legislation, and to consider, as appropriate,
measures to solve other problems that may impede women migrant workers’ access
to and management of their economic resources;
11. Calls upon States to address the structural and underlying causes of
violence against women migrant workers through education, dissemination of
information and awareness-raising, by promoting their empowerment and, where
relevant, their integration into the formal economy, in particular in economic
decision-making, and by promoting their participation in public life, as appropriate;
12. Calls upon Governments to recognize the right of women migrant
workers, regardless of their immigration status, to have access to emergency health
care, and in this regard to ensure that women migrant workers are not discriminated
against on the grounds of pregnancy and childbirth and, in accordance with national
legislation, to address the vulnerabilities to HIV experienced by migrant populations
and support their access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support;
13. Urges States that have not yet done so to adopt and implement legislation
and policies that protect all women migrant workers, including those in domestic
service, to include therein, and improve where necessary, relevant monitoring and
inspection measures in line with applicable International Labour Organization
conventions and other instruments to ensure compliance with international
obligations and to grant women migrant workers in domestic service access to
gender-sensitive, transparent mechanisms for bringing complaints against
employers, including terminating their contracts in case of labour and economic
exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and sexual abuse in the
workplace, while stressing that such instruments should not punish women migrant
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