Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers.

UN Commission on Human Rights (42nd sess. : 1986 : Geneva), Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers., E/CN.4/RES/1986/58, UN Commission on Human Rights, 13 March 1986, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unchr/1986/en/6498 [accessed 06 December 2024]
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1986/58. Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers[1]160

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, by which the Assembly established an open-ended working group to elaborate an international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families, Recalling also General Assembly resolutions 35/198 of 15 December 1980, 36/160 of 16 December 1981, 37/170 of 17 December 1982, 38/86 of 16 December 1983, 39/102 of 14 December 1984 and 40/130 of 13 December 1985, in all of which the Assembly has taken note of the reports of the Working Group on the Drafting of an International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families and has expressed its satisfaction with the steady and substantial progress being made by the Working Group, Pleased to note that the General Assembly has decided, in order to maintain the pace and enable the Working Group to discharge its mandate as soon as possible, that the Group should again hold an intersessional meeting of two weeks' duration in New York, immediately after the first regular session of 1986 of the Economic and Social Council, and that the Group should continue its work during the forty-first session of the General Assembly, Bearing in mind its own resolutions 37 (XXXVII) of 12 March 1981, 1982/35 of 11 March 1982, 1983/45 of 9 March 1983, 1984/61 of 15 March 1984 and, in particular, 1985/52 of 14 March 1985,

1. Welcomes once more the progress being made by the Working Group in the discharge of its mandate and, in particular, the headway it has made on the second reading of the draft International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families;

2. Invites all Member States to continue co-operating with the Working Group in the performance of its task;

3. Reiterates its hope that the General Assembly will complete the elaboration of the convention as soon as possible;

4. Requests the Secretary-General to inform the Commission at its forty-third session of the further progress made in this regard, under the agenda item "Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers".


[1]160 Adopted at the 56th meeting, on 13 March 1986, without a vote. See chap. XIV.
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