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18. Calls upon States, in accordance with the provisions of article 36 of the
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 21 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, the competent authorities respect her freedom to communicate
with 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;
19. Invites the United Nations system and other concerned intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations to cooperate with Governments, within
existing resources, 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 and to continue to
support national efforts to address violence against women migrant workers in a
coordinated way that ensures effective implementation, enhances their impact and
strengthens positive outcomes for women migrant workers;
20. Encourages Governments to formulate national policies concerning
women migrant workers that are based on up-to-date, relevant sex-disaggregated
data and analysis in close consultation with women migrant workers and relevant
stakeholders throughout the policy process, and also encourages Governments to
ensure that such process is adequately resourced and that the resulting policies have
measurable targets and indicators, timetables and monitoring and accountability
measures, in particular for employment agencies, employers and public officials,
and provide for impact assessments and ensure multi-sector coordination within and
between countries of origin, transit and destination through appropriate
mechanisms;
21. 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, and UN-Women, to develop and enhance appropriate
sex-disaggregated national data-collection, analysis and dissemination methodologies
that will generate comparable data, and tracking and reporting systems on violence
against women migrant workers and, wherever possible, violations of their rights at
all stages of the migration process, and:
(a) To further study the costs of violence against women, including migrant
workers, to the women themselves, their families and their communities;
(b) To analyse the opportunities available to women migrant workers and
their impact on development;
(c) To support the improvement of macrodata on remittances, for appropriate
policy formulation and implementation;
22. Requests the Secretary-General to provide a comprehensive, analytical
and thematic report to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session on the
problem of violence against women migrant workers and on the implementation of
the present resolution, specifically with regard to access to justice for women
migrant workers, highlighting the impact of legislation, policies and programmes on
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