Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers.
- Author: UN Commission on Human Rights (38th sess. : 1982 : Geneva)
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Date:
11 March 1982
1982/35. Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers[1]121
The Commission on Human Rights, Convinced of the urgent need to adopt a comprehensive convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families, Recalling General Assembly resolution 34/172 of 17 December 1979, in which the Assembly decided to create, at its thirty-fifth session, a working group open to all Member States to elaborate an international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 35/198 of 15 December 1980, in which the Assembly noted with satisfaction that the Working Group had been able to commence its work during the thirty-fifth session in accordance with its terms of reference, Further recalling General Assembly resolution 36/160 of 16 December 1981, in which the Assembly took note of the report of the open-ended Working Group[2]122 and expressed its satisfaction with the substantial progress that the Working Group had so far made in the accomplishment of its mandate, Noting that the General Assembly decided that, in order to enable the Working Group to complete its task as Seen as possible, the Working Group would hold again an intersessional meeting of two weeks duration in New York, in May 1982, immediately after the first regular session of the Economic and Social Council,1. Welcomes the progress made so far by the Working Group in the elaboration of the convention;
2. Invites all Member States to co-operate fully with the Working Group in the discharge of its mandate;
3. Expresses the hope that the General Assembly will complete the elaboration of the convention as Seen as possible;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to inform the Commission at its thirty-ninth session on further progress achieved in this regard under the item "Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers".
[1]121 Adopted at the 60th meeting on 11 March 1982, by a roll-call vote of 39 to none, with 3 abstentions. See chap. XII. [2]122 A/C.3/36/10.
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