A/RES/68/137
Violence against women migrant workers
with and have access to the consular officials of the country of her nationality and,
in this regard, to inform without delay, if that woman migrant worker so requests,
the consular post of her State of nationality;
21. Invites the United Nations system and other concerned intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations to cooperate with Governments, within
existing resources, 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 and to continue to
support national efforts to address violence against women migrant workers in a
coordinated way that ensures effective implementation, enhances their impact and
strengthens positive outcomes for women migrant workers;
22. Encourages Governments to formulate national policies concerning
women migrant workers that are based on up-to-date, relevant sex-disaggregated
data and analysis, in close consultation with women migrant workers and relevant
stakeholders throughout the policy process, and also encourages Governments to
ensure that this process is adequately resourced and that the resulting policies have
measurable targets and indicators, timetables and monitoring and accountability
measures, in particular for employment agencies, employers and public officials,
and provide for impact assessments and ensure multi-sector coordination within and
between countries of origin, transit and destination through appropriate
mechanisms;
23. 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 Department of Economic and Social
Affairs of the Secretariat and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), to develop and enhance appropriate sexdisaggregated national data collection, analysis and dissemination methodologies
that will generate comparable data, and tracking and reporting systems on violence
against women migrant workers and, wherever possible, on violations of their rights
at all stages of the migration process, and:
(a) To further study the costs of violence against women, including migrant
workers, to the women themselves, their families and their communities;
(b) To analyse the opportunities available to women migrant workers and
their impact on development;
(c) To support the improvement of macrodata on remittances, for appropriate
policy formulation and implementation;
24. Requests Governments and international organizations to take
appropriate measures to give due consideration to the declaration of the United
Nations High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development,9 held in
New York on 3 and 4 October 2013, in order to ensure that the human rights and
human development aspects of women’s migration are adequately integrated into
national, regional and international development policy and practice, such as
poverty reduction strategies and strategies aimed at accelerating progress towards
the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
25. Encourages the United Nations system and related entities to continue
and step up their efforts and promote partnerships with all stakeholders, including
civil society organizations, and to coordinate their work in support, as appropriate,
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