A/RES/73/195
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Promote signature and ratification of, accession to and implementation of
relevant international instruments related to international labour migration, labour
rights, decent work and forced labour;
(b) Build upon the work of existing bilateral, subregional and regional
platforms that have overcome obstacles and identified best practices in labour
mobility, by facilitating cross-regional dialogue to share this knowledge, and to
promote full respect for the human and labour rights of migrant workers at all skills
levels, including migrant domestic workers;
(c) Improve regulations on public and private recruitment agencies in order to
align them with international guidelines and best practices, and prohibit recruiters and
employers from charging or shifting recruitment fees or related costs to migrant
workers in order to prevent debt bondage, exploitation and forced labour, including
by establishing mandatory, enforceable mechanisms for effective regulation and
monitoring of the recruitment industry;
(d) Establish partnerships with all relevant stakeholders, including employers,
migrant workers’ organizations and trade unions, to ensure that migrant workers are
provided with written contracts and are made aware of the provisions therein, the
regulations relating to international labour recruitment and employment in the
country of destination, and their rights and obligations, as we ll as of how to access
effective complaint and redress mechanisms, in a language they understand;
(e) Enact and implement national laws that sanction human and labour rights
violations, especially in cases of forced and child labour, and cooperate with th e
private sector, including employers, recruiters, subcontractors and suppliers, to build
partnerships that promote conditions for decent work, prevent abuse and exploitation,
and ensure that the roles and responsibilities within the recruitment and employ ment
processes are clearly outlined, thereby enhancing supply chain transparency;
(f) Strengthen the enforcement of fair and ethical recruitment and decent work
norms and policies by enhancing the abilities of labour inspectors and other
authorities to better monitor recruiters, employers and service providers in all sectors,
ensuring that international human rights and labour law is observed to prevent all
forms of exploitation, slavery, servitude and forced, compulsory or child labour;
(g) Develop and strengthen labour migration and fair and ethical recruitment
processes that allow migrants to change employers and modify the conditions or
length of their stay with minimal administrative burden, while promoting greater
opportunities for decent work and respect for international human rights and
labour law;
(h) Take measures that prohibit the confiscation or non-consensual retention
of work contracts and travel or identity documents from migrants, in order to prevent
abuse, all forms of exploitation, forced, compulsory and child labour, extortion and
other situations of dependency, and to allow migrants to fully exercise their human
rights;
(i) Provide migrant workers engaged in remunerated and contractual labour
with the same labour rights and protections extended to all workers in the respective
sector, such as the rights to just and favourable conditions of work, to equal pay for
work of equal value, to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and to the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through wage
protection mechanisms, social dialogue and membership in trade unions;
(j) Ensure that migrants working in the informal economy have safe access to
effective reporting, complaint and redress mechanisms in cases of exp loitation, abuse
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