Measures to Improve the Situation and Ensure the Human Rights and Dignity of All Migrant Workers

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1981.

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14 versions · 1977–1990

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/44/155

1990A/RES/44/155Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workersLatestCompare with previous version
1989A/RES/43/146Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workersCompare with previous version
1988A/RES/42/140Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workersCompare with previous version
1987A/RES/41/151Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workersCompare with previous version
1986A/RES/40/130Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workersCompare with previous version

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3 topics

Migrant Workers Migrant Workers' Families Treaties

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the fact that at the current session the Working Group has begun its work with a view to the elaboration of a draft convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families;

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Chairman of the Working Group 140 as well as the documents annexed to it;

Decides that the Working Group shall hold an intersessional meeting of two weeks' duration in New York in May 1981, immediately after the first regular session of the Economic and Social Council of 1981, to enable it to continue its work in order to discharge its mandate to the best of its ability during the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly;

Invites the Secretary-General to communicate to Governments the report of the Chairman of the Working Group and the documents annexed to it in order to enable the members of the Working Group, in the light of instructions from their respective Governments, to undertake during the second phase of its activities, at the intersessional meeting of May 1981, the preparation of a preliminary draft convention for consideration by the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session;

Also invites the Secretary-General to communicate, for information purposes, the above-mentioned documents to the competent organs of the United Nations system and to the interested international organizations, in order to enable them to participate in the work of the Working Group and to co-operate in the preparation of the draft convention;

Further invites the Secretary-General to communicate to Governments, to the competent organs of the United Nations system and to the interested international organizations the report and the preliminary draft convention to be drawn up by the Working Group at its intersessional meeting of May 1981, in order to ensure effective preparation of the work of the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly on the elaboration of a draft convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families;

Decides that the Working Group shall meet during the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly in order to continue its work on the elaboration of an international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families.

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