Violence Against Women Migrant Workers

A/RES/60/139View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 64 Advancement of women, published in 2006.

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?

18 subjects

Criminal Law Data Collection Employment Policy Gender Discrimination Gender-Based Violence Human Rights Education Information Exchange International Cooperation Law Enforcement Officials Punishment Report Preparation Resources Allocation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Special Rapporteurs Training Programmes Treaties Women Migrant Workers Women's Rights

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

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

⁷A/60/137 and Corr.1.

Also takes note of the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the human rights of migrants⁸ and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on violence against women, its causes and consequences,⁹ with regard to violence against women migrant workers, and encourages all special rapporteurs whose mandates relate to the subject of violence against women migrant workers to address the issue of violence against women migrant workers and their human rights, in particular the problems of gender-based violence and of discrimination, as well as trafficking in women;

⁸E/CN.4/2005/85 and Corr.1 and Add.1–4.

⁹E/CN.4/2005/72 and Corr.1 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1 and Add.2–5.

Notes the findings contained in the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development, 2004: Women and International Migration,¹⁰ including its recommendations for concrete actions aimed at helping to empower migrant women, including women migrant workers, and reducing their vulnerability to abuse;

¹⁰A/59/287 and Add.1; see also United Nations publication, Sales No. E.04.IV.4.

Acknowledges with appreciation the entry into force of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families¹¹ on 1 July 2003;

¹¹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481.

Requests all Governments to continue to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteurs mentioned in paragraph 2 above in the performance of their tasks and mandated duties, including by making available to them requested information on violence against women migrant workers and by reacting promptly to their urgent appeals, and encourages Governments to give serious consideration to inviting them to visit their countries;

Calls upon all Governments to incorporate a gender perspective in all policies on international migration, including, inter alia, for the protection of migrant women from violence, discrimination, exploitation and abuse;

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 to adopt measures or strengthen existing ones that protect the human rights of women migrant workers, regardless of their immigration status, including, inter alia, in policies that regulate the recruitment and deployment of women migrant workers and appropriate legal measures against intermediaries who deliberately encourage the clandestine movement of workers and who exploit women migrant workers, so as to reduce the vulnerability of migrant women to exploitation, ill treatment and trafficking, and to consider expanding dialogue among States on devising innovative methods to promote legal channels of migration, inter alia, in order to deter illegal migration;

Invites Governments, the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations to cooperate towards a better understanding of the problems of women and international migration, including to improve the collection, dissemination and analysis of the kind of data that can explain the causes and consequences of those problems, explore the links between migration and trafficking, and 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 analysis 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, as well as all human rights treaties that contribute to the protection of the rights of women migrant workers;

Welcomes the entry into force of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime¹² on 25 December 2003, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime¹³ on 28 January 2004, and encourages Governments to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Protocols;

¹²Resolution 55/25, annex II.

¹³Ibid., annex III.

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 report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session 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, and the International Organization for Migration, as well as the reports of the Special Rapporteurs mentioned in paragraph 2 above, and other relevant sources, including non-governmental organizations.

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