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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;
18. Invites Governments, the United Nations system and other concerned
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to cooperate 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;
19. 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 United Nations Development Fund for Women and the
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, to
develop appropriate national data-collection and analysis methodologies that will
generate comparable data and tracking and reporting systems on violence against
women migrant workers;
20. Notes with appreciation the elaboration and adoption by the Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women of general recommendation
No. 26, on women migrant workers, 14 and calls upon States parties to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 15 to
consider the recommendation;
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21. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-sixth session on the problem of violence against women migrant workers and
on the implementation of the present resolution, taking into account updated
information from the organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the
International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Programme,
the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime, as well as the reports of special rapporteurs that refer to the
situation of women migrant workers and other relevant sources, such as the
International Organization for Migration, including non-governmental organizations.
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/64/38), part one,
annex I, decision 42/I.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
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