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Migrant Women Workers

A/RES/47/96No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 94Advancement of women, published in 1993.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics
ConferencesGender-Based ViolenceHuman Rights ViolationsRehabilitationRehabilitation CounsellingSocial ServicesWomen Migrant WorkersWomen's Rights

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Expresses grave concern over the plight of migrant women workers who become victims of physical, mental and sexual harassment and abuse;
2
Calls upon all countries, particularly the sending and receiving countries, to cooperate with each other in taking appropriate steps to ensure that the rights of women migrant workers are protected;
3
Urges all States to adopt appropriate measures to provide support setvices to women victims of violence and to provide resources for their physical and psychological rehabilitation;
4
Calls upon relevant bodies and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to inform the
Secretary-General of the ex tent of the problem and to recommend further measures to implement the purposes of the present resolution;
5
Envisages the inclusion of the subject of violence against women migrant workers in the agenda of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, to be held in Beijing in 1995;
6
Requests the Secretary-General, in view of the time constraints and pending the completion of a written report, to make a preliminary oral report, through the Commission on the Status of Women and the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session, on the implementation of the present resolution under the item entitled "Advancement of women".

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