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

A/RES/35/198View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1977–1990

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

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/155	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/146	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	679	83%Compare
1988	A/RES/42/140	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	674	72%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/151	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	736	72%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/130	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	626	80%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Migrant Workers Migrant Workers' Families Treaties

What’s in this document?

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.

"' Resolution 217 A (Ill).

" 6 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.

"' Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

13 ' International Labour Office, Official Bulletin. vol. L VIII. 1975, series A, No. I, Convention No. 143.

"' Ibid., No. I, Recommendation No. 151

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