Annotation:
In 1999, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights appointed a Special Rapporteur to examine means for protecting the human rights of migrants. The 2005 edition of the subsequent annual reports of the Special Rapporteur reviews the progress achieved and the activities undertaken within this mandate. Part II of the report contains a specific focus on migrant women and unaccompanied minors. Some of the particular issues reviewed are the conditions of migrant women employed in domestic service and violence against migrant women. The report also points to the need for better information about the specific problems of migrant women. [Descriptors: Migration - Refugees and Immigration, International]