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

A/RES/40/130No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1986.

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?

5 topics
Inter-Agency CooperationMigrant WorkersMigrant Workers' FamiliesTreatiesWork Organization

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
Takes note with satisfaction of the reports of the Working Group on the Drafting of an lnternational Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Ali Migrant Workers and Their Families and, in particular, ofthe progress made by the Working Group on the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention;
2
Decides that, in order to enable it to complete its task as soon as possible, the Working Group shall again hold an inter-sessional meeting of two weeks' duration in New York, immediately after the first regular session of 1986 of the Economic and Social Council;
3
Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to Governments the reports of the Working Group so as to enable the members of the Group to continue the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention during the intersessional meeting to be held in the spring of 1986, as well as to transmit the results obtained at that meeting to the General Assembly for consideration during its forty-first session;
4
A/so 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 W orking Group;
5
Decides that the Working Group shall meet during the forty-first session of the General Assembly, preferably at the beginning of the session, to continue the second reading of the draft international convention on the protection of the rights of ali migrant workers and their families.
J 16th plenary meeting 13 December J 98 5

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