Violence Against Women Migrant Workers

A/RES/48/110View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 111 Advancement of women, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

19 versions · 1994–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/185

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/185	Violence against women migrant workers	6,874	93%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/180	Violence against women migrant workers	6,861	89%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/141	Violence against women migrant workers	6,155	94%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/127	Violence against women migrant workers	5,878	80%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/149	Violence against women migrant workers	5,368	81%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

11 reports · 2005–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/317	Violence against women migrant workers report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/180
2023	A/78/292	Violence against women migrant workers report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/141
2021	A/76/245	Violence against women migrant workers report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/127
2019	A/74/235	Violence against women migrant workers report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/149
2017	A/72/215	Violence against women migrant workers report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/130

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

Ibid., chap. III, sect. I, para. 18.

Expresses grave concern at the plight of women migrant workers who become victims of physical, mental and sexual harassment and abuse;

Recognizes with appreciation the efforts exerted by some receiving countries to alleviate the negative situation of women migrant workers;

Welcomes the recommendation to the General Assembly by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1993/10 of 27 July 1993 of the draft Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women; 3/

Reaffirms the provision in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action that the rights of women should form an integral part of United Nations human rights activities, including the promotion of all human rights instruments specifically relating to women;

Calls upon all countries, particularly the sending and receiving States, to cooperate in taking appropriate steps to ensure that the rights of women migrant workers are protected;

Also calls upon the countries concerned to take appropriate measures to ensure that law-enforcement officials and the judiciary assist in guaranteeing the full protection of the rights of women migrant workers;

Urges both sending and host countries to help ensure that women migrant workers are protected from unscrupulous recruitment practices, if needed, by the adoption of legal measures;

See resolution 48/104.

Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; 4/

Invites trade unions to support the realization of the rights of women migrant workers by assisting them in organizing themselves so as to enable them better to assert their rights;

Requests treaty-monitoring bodies and calls upon non-governmental organizations concerned with violence against women to include, where appropriate, the situation of women migrant workers in their deliberations and findings and to supply relevant information to United Nations bodies and Governments;

Calls upon non-governmental organizations concerned in cooperation with both the sending and the host countries to conduct seminars and training programmes on human rights instruments, particularly those pertaining to migrant workers;

Urges all States, with the support of relevant non-governmental organizations, to adopt appropriate measures to provide support services to women migrant workers who have become traumatized as a consequence of violations of their rights by, inter alia, unscrupulous employers and/or recruiters, and to provide resources for their physical and psychological rehabilitation;

Also urges that the subject of violence against women migrant workers be included in the agenda of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, to be held in Beijing in 1995;

Calls upon competent bodies and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to inform the Secretary-General of the extent of the problem and to recommend further measures to implement the purposes of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution, taking into account the relevant views of the Commission on the Status of Women in its discussion of the subject of violence against women at its thirty-eighth session, in March 1994.

Resolution 45/158, annex.

Violence Against Women Migrant Workers

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