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

A/RES/37/170View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1983.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1977–1990

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/44/155

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/155	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/146	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	679	83%Compare
1988	A/RES/42/140	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	674	72%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/151	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	736	72%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/130	Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers	626	80%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Migrant Workers Migrant Workers' Families Treaties

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

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;

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 1983 of the Economic and Social Council;

Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to Governments the report of the Working Group so as to allow the members of the Group to continue their task during the intersessional meeting to be held in the spring of 1983, as well as to transmit the results obtained at that meeting in order that the General Assembly may consider them during its thirty-eighth session;

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;

Decides that the Working Group shall meet during the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly, preferably at the beginning of the session, 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.

I 10th plenary meeting 17 December /982

81 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. F/ftv,fimrth Session, Supplemenr No. 6 (E/5265), chap. XX, sect. A.

82 /bid., Fifty-sixth Session. Supplement No. 5 (E/5464). chap. XIX. sect. A.

83 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. 1979. Supplement No. 6 (E/1979/36), chap. XXIV, sect. A.

84 Ibid., 1980, Supplement No. 3 (E/1980/13 and Corr. I). chap. XXVI. sect. A.

85 See E/CN.4/1296, chap. XVII, sect. A.

86 E/CN.4/1336.

87 E/CN.4/1354 and Add.1-6. KK NC.3/37/8. • 9 NC.3135114 and Corr. I. 90 A/C. 3/36/ I I. "' Resolution 2 I 7 A (Ill). 92 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 93 Resolution 2106 A (XX). annex. 94 Resolution 34/180. annex.

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• 1 Ibid .. chap. IV. "' See A/C.3/3717 and Corr. I and 2.

•• See American Society of International Law, International L,,gal Ma- 96 A/37/422. annex.

terials. vol. XXI, No. I, January 1982, p. 59.

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