Measures to Improve the Situation of Migrant Workers

A/RES/3224(XXIX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

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3 subjects

Migrant Workers Report Preparation Special Rapporteurs

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Notes with satisfaction that the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities has decided to continue and complete this study and, for this purpose, has received the cooperation of Member States and specialized agencies, especially the International Labour Organisation;

Requests States which have not yet done so to provide the fullest possible information to the Special Rapporteur responsible for continuing the abovementioned study in co-operation with the Secretariat;

Requests the Secretary-General to inform the General Assembly in due course of the ·contents of the complete study;

Invites all States, in so far as more detailed cri• teria necessary for formulating explicit recommendations do not yet exist:

To extend to all migrant workers who enter their countries legally treatment equal to that provided for their own nationals with regard to human rights and to the provisions of their labour legislation applicable to such migrant workers;

To promote and facilitate by all means in their power the adoption of bilateral agreements which would help to reduce the illicit traffic in alien workers;

( c) Pending the conclusion of such agreements, to adopt the appropriate measures to ensure that the human rights of migrant workers who enter their territory surreptitiously are fully respected.

2278th plenar_v meeting

6 November 1974

WSee E/CN.4/1128, part B.

21 E/CN.4/Sub.2/351 and Add.I; see also E/CN.4/Sub.2/ 352. General Auemhl:,-Tweaty-ainth Senion

10 See Officials Records of tl,e Economic and Social Council Fifty-fourtl, Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/5265), chap. XX'.

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