Violence against women migrant workers 2013, para. 6

Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Calls upon Governments to adopt or strengthen measures to protect the human rights of women migrant workers, including domestic workers, regardless of their immigration status, including in policies that regulate the recruitment and deployment of women migrant workers, to consider expanding dialogue among States on devising innovative methods to promote legal channels of migration, inter alia, in order to deter irregular migration, to consider incorporating a gender perspective into immigration laws in order to prevent discrimination and violence against women, including in independent, circular and temporary migration, and to consider permitting, in accordance with national legislation, women migrant workers who are victims of violence to apply for residency permits independently of abusive employers or spouses, and to eliminate abusive sponsorship systems;
Status juridique
Negotiated soft law
Organe
United Nations General Assembly
Type de document
Resolution
Mode d'adoption
Consensus
Thèmes
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Personnes concernées
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Année
2013
Type de paragraphe
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Violence against women migrant workers (2013), A/RES/68/137, OP 6.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
6