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

A/RES/41/151View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1987.

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?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Working Group on the Drafting of an International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Ali Migrant Workers and Their Families148 and, in particular, of the progress made by the Working Group on the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention;

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 1987 of the Economic and Social Council;

Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to Governments the report ofthe Working Group so as to enable the members ofthe Group to continue the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention during the intersessional meeting to be held in the spring of 1987, as well as to transmit the results obtained at that meeting to the General Assembly for consideration during its fortysecond session;

A/so invites the Secretary-General to transmit the above-mentioned document to the competent organs of the United Nations and to the 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 forty-second session of the General Assembly, preferably at the beginning of the session, to continue the second reading of the draft international convention on the pro-

\ tection ofthe rights of ali migrant workers and their families;

Requests the Secretary-General to do everything possible to ensure adequate secretariat services for the Working Group for the timely fulfilment of its mandate, both at its inter-sessional meeting to be held after the first regular session of 1987 of the Economic and Social Council and during the forty-second session of the General Assembly.

VI.

ANNEX

Recommended measures for the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights l.

The following measures are recommended for possible action at t he national level: (a)

Formal proclamation of 10 December 1988 as Human Rights Day;

(b) lssuance of special messages on 10 December 1988 by heads of State or Government or other prominent civil personalities;

(e) Spccial meetings of parliamentary and other public and prívate institutions on Human Rights Da}.:

(d) Special ..:onsideration by States which have not yet ratified or acceded to the international instruments of the United Nations in the field of human rights to become parties to those instruments;

(e) Establishment or strengthemng of national or local institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights and encouragement of teaching programmes on human rights at various educational levels;

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Dissemination of the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in national languages, including the languages of minorities;

(g) Issuance during 1988 of human rights postage stamps, first-day covers and special cancellations;

(h) Participation by non-governmental organizations in the celebration of the anniversary, and the organization of activities by such organizations;

(1) Organization of activities within the framework and in support of curren! decades and international years being prepared on human rights issues.

It is rewmmended that the following measures, among others, should be taken by the Secretary-General at the United Nations leve!:

(a) Issuance by 10 December 1988 of updated versions in ali official languages of the United Nations of the publication entitled Human Rights: A Compilation of lnternational lnstruments; 113 lssuance by 10 December 1988 of updated versions in ali official (b) languages of the United Nations of the publication entitled United Nations Action in the Field of Human Rights: 141 (e)

Organization of commemorative events, as in past practice, at United Nations Headquarters and at the United Nations Offices at Geneva and Vienna, as well as at Nairobi and at United Nations information centres, on or around 10 December 1988;

(d) Organization in 1988, within the framework of the programme of advisory services in the field ofhuman rights, of an international seminar 011 the teaching of human rights;

(e) Adoption of arrangements for the award of human rights prizes, as envisaged in recommendation C of the annex to General Assembly resolution 2217 A (XXI) of 19 December 1966.

147 llnited Nations publication. Sales No. E.83.XIV.2.

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