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

A/RES/42/140View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1988.

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?

6 subjects

Calendar of Meetings Conference and Meeting Services Human Rights Migrant Workers Migrant Workers' Families Treaties

What’s in this document?

2 operative paragraphs

Reaffirming once more the permanent validity of the principies and standards set forth in the basic instruments regarding the international protection ofhuman rights, in particular in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International Covenants on Human Rights, 13 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination3 and the Convention on the Elimination nf Ali Forms of Discrimination against Women, 52

Bearing in mind the principies and standards established within the framework ofthe International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the importance ofthe task carried out in connection with migrant workers and their families in other specialized agencies and in various organs of the United Nations,

Reiterating that. in spite of the existence of an already established body of principies and standards, there is a need to make further efforts to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of ali migrant workers and their families.

Recalling its resolution 34/ 172 of 17 December 1979, in which it decided to establish a working group open to ali Member States to elaborate an international convention 011 the protection of the rights of ali migran! workers and their families,

Recalling also its resolutions 35/198 of 15 December 1980, 36/160 of 16 December 1981, 37/170 of 17 December 1982, 38/86 of 16December 1983, 39/102 of 14 December 1984, 40/130 of 13 December 1985 and 41/151 of4 December 1986, in which it renewed the mandate of the Working Group on the Drafting of an International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Ali Migrant Workers and Their Families and requested it to nmtinLJe its work.

Having examined the progress made by the Working Group at its sixth inter-sessional meeting, held from 1 to 12 June 1987, and at the curren! session of the General Assembly, from 22 September to 2 October 1987, during which the Group continued with the second reading ofthe draft convention,

Takes note with satisfaction of the two most rccent reports ofthe Working Group on the Drafting of an International Convention on the Protection ofthe Rights of Ali Migrant Workers and Their Families 162 and, in particular, of the progress made by the Working Group on the draft- 1ng, in second reading, of the draft convention;

Decides that, in order to enable it to complete its 2. 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 1 g88 of the Econornic and Social Council;

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Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to Gova:rnments the tw(> most recent reports of the Working Group so as to enable the members of the Group to conrmue the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention during the inter-sessional meeting to be held in the ,pring of 1988. as well as to transmit the results obtained ti that meeting to 1 he General Assembly for consideration -luring its forty-tlmd ,ession;

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A/so inviles the Secrctary-Gcneral to tran~mit the above-mentioned documents to the competen! organs of the llnited 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-third session of the General Assembly, prcferably at the beginning ofthe session, to continue the second reading of the draft international convent1011 on t~e protection ofthe rights ofall migran! workers and the1r fam1- lies;

Requests the Secretary-Ueneral to do everything possible to ensure adequate Secretariat service~ for the Working Group for thc timely fulfilment of its mandate, both at its inter-sessional meeting to he held after the first regular session of 1988 of t he Econornic ami Social Council and during the forty-third ,cssion of thc General Assembly.

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