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

A/RES/36/160No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1982.

What other versions does this mandate have?

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

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
Migrant WorkersMigrant Workers' FamiliesTreaties

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the report of the Working Group on the Drafting of an International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families and expresses its satisfaction with the substantial progress that the Working Group has so far made in the accomplishment of its mandate;
2
Decides that, in order to enable the Working Group to complete its task as soon as possible, the Working Group shall hold again an intersessional meeting of two weeks' duration in New York, in May I 982, immediately after the first regular session of the Economic and Social Council;
3
Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to Governments the report of the Working Group so as to allow the members of the Working Group to continue their task during the intersessional meeting to be held in May 1982, as well as to transmit the results obtained in that meeting in order that the General Assembly may consider them during its thirty-seventh session:
4
Also invites the Secretary-General to transmit the above-mentioned documents to the competent organs of the United Nations and to international organizations concerned, for their information, so as to enable them to continue their co-operation with the Working Group;
5
Decides that the Working Group shall meet during the thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly to continue and, if possible. to complete the elaboration of an international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families.
JO 1 st plenary meeting 16 December /981

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