A/RES/70/130
Violence against women migrant workers
11. Further urges Governments to strongly encourage all stakeholders,
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 interme diaries promote
adherence to and respect for the human rights and, where applicable, labour rights
of migrant workers, particularly women;
12. 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;
13. Encourages States to consider designing and implementing financial
literacy training programmes for women migrant workers and, where appropriate,
their families, and other programmes that may contribute to the full development
impact of migration;
14. Calls upon States to address the structural and underlying causes
violence against women migrant workers through education, dissemination
information and awareness-raising, by promoting their empowerment and access
decent work and, where relevant, their integration into the formal economy,
particular in economic decision-making, and by promoting their participation
public life, as appropriate;
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15. Calls upon Governments to promote access to adequate health-care
services for women migrant workers and their accompanying children;
16. Also calls upon Governments to recognize the right of women migrant
workers and their accompanying children, regardless of their immigration status, to
have access without discrimination to emergency health care, including in times of
humanitarian crises, natural disasters and other emergency situations, 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;
17. Encourages Governments to ensure the appropriate use of voluntary and
confidential HIV testing and pregnancy testing to prevent unwarranted barriers prior
to and during migration;
18. 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
work, 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
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