Violence against women migrant workers
A/RES/70/130
5.
Encourages all United Nations agencies and special rapporteurs on
human rights whose mandates touch on the issues of violence against women
migrant workers to improve the collection of information on and analysis of those
areas within their mandates relating to the current challenges facing women migrant
workers, including in supply chains, and also encourages Governments to cooperate
with the agencies and special rapporteurs in this regard;
6.
Calls upon all Governments to incorporate a human rights, gender sensitive and people-centred perspective in legislation, policies and programmes on
international migration and on labour and employment, consistent with their human
rights obligations and commitments under human rights instruments, for the
prevention of and protection of migrant women against violence and discrimination,
exploitation and abuse, to take effective measures to ensure that such migration and
labour policies do not reinforce discrimination, and, where necessary, to conduct
impact assessment studies of such legislation, policies and programmes in order to
identify the impact of measures taken and the results achieved in regard to women
migrant workers;
7.
Calls upon Governments to adopt or strengthen measures to protect the
human rights of women migrant workers, including domestic workers, regardless of
their immigration status, including in policies that regulate the recruitment and
deployment of women migrant workers, to consider expanding dialogue among
States on devising innovative methods to promote legal channels of migration, inter
alia, in order to deter irregular migration, to consider incorporating a gender
perspective into immigration laws in order to prevent discrimination and violence
against women, including in independent, circular and temporary migration, and to
consider permitting, in accordance with national legislation, women migrant
workers who are victims of violence to apply for residency permits ind ependently of
abusive employers or spouses, and to eliminate abusive sponsorship systems;
8.
Encourages Governments to seek to address the push and pull factors
surrounding women’s irregular migration, including the need to resolve care deficits
in labour-importing countries and to regulate, formalize, professionalize and protect
the terms and conditions of employment in care work, in line with national law and
applicable obligations under international law;
9.
Urges Governments to enhance bilateral, regional, interregional and
international cooperation to address violence against women migrant workers, fully
respecting international law, including international human rights law, as well as to
strengthen efforts to reduce the vulnerability of women migrant workers by
promoting decent work, by, inter alia, adopting minimum wage policies and
employment contracts in accordance with applicable laws and regu lations,
facilitating effective access to justice and effective action in the areas of law
enforcement, prosecution, prevention, capacity-building and victim protection and
support, exchanging information and good practices in combating violence and
discrimination against women migrant workers and fostering sustainable
development alternatives to migration in countries of origin;
10. Also urges Governments to take into account the best interests of the
child by adopting or strengthening measures to respect, promote and protect the
human rights of migrant children, especially girls, including unaccompanied girls,
regardless of their immigration status, so as to prevent labour and economic
exploitation, discrimination, commercial sexual exploitation, sexual harassment,
violence and sexual abuse in the workplace, including in domestic work;
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