A/RES/68/137. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Year: 2013
• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/137
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/137

General Assembly Distr.: General

24 January 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 28 (a)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/449 and Corr.1)]

68/137. Violence against women migrant workers

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

all of its previous resolutions on violence against women migrant

workers and those adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, the

Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime Prevention and

Criminal Justice, and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against

Wom en ,

1

Reaffirming

the provisions concerning women migrant workers contained in

the outcome documents of the World Conference on Human Rights,

2

the

International Conference on Population and Development,

3

the Fourth World

Conference on Women

4

and the World Summit for Social Development

5

and their

reviews,

Reaffirming also

the provisions concerning women migrants contained in the

outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,

6

and calling upon States to promote and protect effectively the human rights and

fundamental freedoms of all migrants regardless of migration status, especially

those of women and children, and to encourage their active participation, as

appropriate, in processes that contribute to decision-making, planning and

implementation of policies and programmes for sustainable development at all

levels,

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1 See resolution 48/104.

2 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

3 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994

(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

4 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations

publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.

5 Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations

publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.

6 Resolution 66/288, annex.