Annotation:
This United Nations resolution calls upon governments to impose penal sanctions on perpetrators of violence against women migrant workers and to provide assistance to victims. It also invites states to consider adopting legal measures to deal with the clandestine movement of workers and the exploitation of women migrant workers, and encourages states 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 (which entered into force on July 1, 2003) as well as the Slavery Convention. This resolution also covers other broad interests of women migrant workers. [Descriptors: Migration - Labour Migration]