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11. Calls upon Governments to recognize the right of women migrant
workers, regardless of their 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 and, in accordance with national
legislation, to address the vulnerabilities to HIV experienced by migrant populations
and support their access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support;
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 include
therein, and improve where necessary, relevant monitoring and inspection measures
in line with applicable International Labour Organization conventions and other
instruments to ensure compliance with international obligations, and to grant
women migrant workers in domestic service access to gender-sensitive, 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 of their rights;
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, irrespective of their
immigration status, in line with domestic legislation, with the full range of
emergency assistance and protection and, to the extent possible, gender-sensitive
services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate, in accordance with
relevant international human rights instruments and applicable conventions;
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 gender-sensitive redress and justice mechanisms that victims can access
effectively and that allow their views and concerns to be presented and considered
at appropriate stages of proceedings, including other measures that will allow
victims to be present during the judicial process, when possible, and to protect
women migrant workers who are victims of violence from revictimization, 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. Also encourages Governments to promote coherence between migration,
labour and anti-trafficking policies and programmes concerning women migrant
workers, based on a human rights, gender-sensitive and people-centred perspective,
to ensure that the human rights of women migrant workers are protected throughout
the migration process, and to enhance efforts to prevent violence against women
migrant workers, prosecute perpetrators and protect and support victims and their
families;
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