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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, in conformity with applicable
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 Governments to recognize the right of women migrant
workers, regardless of 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;
12. Urges States that have not yet done so to adopt and implement legislation
and policies that protect all women migrant domestic workers, and to grant women
migrant workers in domestic service access to transparent mechanisms for bringing
complaints against employers, while stressing that such instruments should not
punish women migrant workers, and calls upon States to promptly investigate and
punish all violations;
13. Calls upon Governments, in cooperation with international organizations,
non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders, to
provide women migrant workers who are victims of violence with the full range of
immediate assistance and protection, such as access to counselling, legal and
consular assistance and temporary shelter, as well as mechanisms to allow the views
and concerns of victims to be presented and considered at appropriate stages of
proceedings, including other measures that will allow victims to be present during
the judicial process, to the extent possible, as well as to establish reintegration and
rehabilitation schemes for returning women migrant workers;
14. Also calls upon Governments, in particular those of the countries of
origin and destination, to put in place penal and criminal sanctions in order to
punish perpetrators of violence against women migrant workers and intermediaries,
and redress and justice mechanisms that victims can access effectively, as well as to
ensure that migrant women victims of violence do not suffer from re-victimization,
including by authorities;
15. Urges all States to adopt effective measures to put an end to the arbitrary
arrest and detention of women migrant workers and to take action to prevent and
punish any form of illegal deprivation of the liberty of women migrant workers by
individuals or groups;
16. Encourages Governments to formulate and implement training
programmes for their law enforcers, immigration officers and border officials,
diplomatic and consular officials, prosecutors and service providers, with a view to
sensitizing those public-sector workers to the issue of violence against women
migrant workers and imparting to them the necessary skills and attitude to ensure
the delivery of proper, professional and gender-sensitive interventions;
17. Calls upon States, in accordance with the provisions of article 36 of the
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 13 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, competent authorities respect her freedom to communicate with
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