Violence Against Women Migrant Workers

A/RES/56/131View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 112 Advancement of women, published in 2002.

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 subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Capacity Building Cooperation Between Organizations Data Collection Gender-Based Violence Human Rights Advancement Immigration Law Laws and Regulations Migration Policy Resources Allocation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Special Rapporteurs Treaties Women Migrant Workers

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;⁷

⁷A/56/329.

Also takes note of the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the human rights of migrants⁸ and of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences,⁹ with regard to violence against women migrant workers, and encourages them to continue to address the issue of violence against women migrant workers and their human rights, in particular the problem of gender-based violence and of discrimination, and trafficking in women;

⁸E/CN.4/2001/83 and Add.1.

⁹E/CN.4/2001/73 and Add.1 and 2.

Requests all Governments to continue to cooperate fully with both Special Rapporteurs in the performance of their tasks and mandated duties and to furnish all information requested, including by reacting promptly to the urgent appeals of the Special Rapporteurs;

Encourages Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, to make available to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants information on violence against women migrant workers, with a view to requesting the Special Rapporteur to recommend concrete measures and actions to address the problem;

Also encourages Governments to give serious consideration to inviting the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries so as to enable her to fulfil the mandate effectively;

Urges concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, to strengthen further their national efforts to protect and promote the rights and welfare of women migrant workers, including through sustained bilateral, regional, interregional and international cooperation, by developing strategies and joint action and taking into account the innovative approaches and experiences of individual Member States, and to establish and maintain continuing dialogues to facilitate the exchange of information;

Also urges concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, to support and allocate appropriate resources for programmes aimed at strengthening preventive action, in particular information for target groups, education and campaigns to increase public awareness of this issue at the national and grass-roots levels, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations;

Notes with appreciation the adoption by Member States, including countries of origin, transit and destination, of measures to inform women migrant workers of their rights and the benefits to which they are entitled, and encourages other Member States to adopt appropriate measures in this regard;

Calls upon concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, if they have not done so, to put in place penal and criminal sanctions to punish perpetrators of violence against women migrant workers and, to the extent possible, to provide, and to encourage non-governmental organizations to provide, victims of violence with the full range of immediate assistance and protection, such as counselling, legal and consular assistance, temporary shelter and other measures that will allow them to be present during the judicial process, as well as to establish reintegration and rehabilitation schemes for returning women migrant workers to their countries of origin;

Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, to support and, if they have not done so, to formulate and implement training programmes for their law enforcers, prosecutors and service providers with a view to instilling among those public sector workers the necessary skills and attitude to ensure the delivery of proper and professional interventions for women migrant workers who are subjected to abuse and violence;

Also encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin and destination, to adopt measures or strengthen existing ones to regulate the recruitment and deployment of women migrant workers, and to consider the adoption of appropriate legal measures against intermediaries who deliberately encourage the clandestine movement of workers and who exploit women migrant workers;

Invites Governments to identify the causes of undocumented migration and its economic, social and demographic impact, as well as its implications for the formulation and application of social, economic and migration policies, including those relating to women migrant workers;

Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin, transit and destination, to avail themselves of the expertise of the United Nations, including the Statistics Division of the Secretariat and other relevant bodies, such as the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, to develop appropriate national data-collection methodologies that will generate comparable data on violence against women migrant workers as bases for research and analyses of the subject;

Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to relevant International Labour Organization conventions and 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,¹⁰ as well as the Slavery Convention of 1926;¹¹

¹⁰Resolution 45/158, annex.

¹¹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861.

Welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children¹² and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air,¹³ supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,¹⁴ and encourages Governments to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Protocols;

¹²Resolution 55/25, annex II.

¹³Ibid., annex III.

¹⁴Ibid., annex I.

Encourages the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to consider developing a general recommendation on the situation of women migrant workers;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session a report on the problem of violence against women migrant workers and on the implementation of the present resolution, taking into account updated information from the organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, as well as the International Organization for Migration and other relevant sources, including non-governmental organizations.

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