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Violence against women migrant workers
25. Calls upon States, in accordance with the provisions of article 36 of the
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 32 to ensure that, if a woman migrant
worker is arrested or committed to prison or custody pending trial, or is detained in
any other manner, the competent authorities respect her freedom to communicate
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;
26. 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;
27. Encourages Governments, in accordance with their applicable legal
obligations, 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;
28. 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, the International Labour Organization and the United
Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN -Women),
to develop and enhance appropriate sex-disaggregated 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 migration costs and on
remittances, for appropriate policy formulation and implementation;
29. 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, 15 held in
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