DRAFT CEDAW General recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration b) Providing the possibility for migrant workers to obtain residence and work permits independent of their employer in order to increase their autonomy and independence, and to prevent exploitation; c) Discontinuing the use of employer-specific work permits, and enforcing the right for migrants to seek alternative employers and sectors of employment without seeking their existing employers’ permission or leaving the country and going through the employment process all over again;161 d) Discontinuing the practice of security bond conditions on employers of migrant workers to ensure they ‘control and supervise’ their foreign employee; 61. a) b) c) d) e) 62. a) b) c) d) e) f) g) Review visa regimes: Conduct an impact assessment of the visa regimes currently in place to ensure they do not facilitate or result in trafficking of migrant women; 162 Monitor the establishments where women under particular visa programmes work to ensure that they are not exploited;163 Facilitate access to permanent residency permits for women migrant workers who are in a situation of vulnerability or at risk of being trafficked;164 Revise the conditions for granting temporary residence permits to migrant women to remove any dependency on their spouses;165 Repeal requirements for women migrant workers to undergo mandatory testing for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases resulting in deportation on the grounds of pregnancy or diagnosis of HIV.166 Address trafficking in corporate supply chains167: Establish laws governing mandatory due diligence in companies’ supply chains, including supply chain transparency; Ensure that businesses are not involved in, facilitate and/or benefit from trafficking within their supply chains, and effectively remedy violations and punish perpetrators; Establish a code of conduct drafted, including zero tolerance policies to sexual exploitation, with the direct input of the workers whose interests it is designed to protect; Ensure that a dedicated audit organization has the power to suspend suppliers who fail to bring their operations into compliance with the code; Provide comprehensive worker-to-worker education; Establish grievance mechanisms for workers at the company level that are gender-sensitive, transparent, clear and available to those who have a legitimate complaint and are in need of access to a remedy and can access without fear of retaliation; Conduct, and/or fund, awareness campaigns to inform consumers and customers of products and services that may involve exploited labour, and where to report suspicions of criminal activities. 161 para. 35(b), CEDAW/C/SGP/CO/5; para. 35(f), CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/8-9; para. 31(d), CEDAW/C/SAU/CO/3-4. 162 para. 20(d), CEDAW/C/CYP/CO/6-7. 163 para. 23(b), CEDAW/C/KOR/CO/7. 164 para. 35(f), CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/8-9. 165 para. 27(f), CEDAW/C/SWE/CO/8-9; para. 21(f), CEDAW/C/FRA/CO/7-8; para. 25(c), CEDAW/C/AUT/CO/7-8. 166 para. 35(c), CEDAW/C/SGP/CO/5. 167 See also: OSCE/ Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ending Exploitation. Ensuring that Businesses do not Contribute to Trafficking in Human Beings: Duties of States and the Private Sector, Occasional Paper Series no. 7 (Vienna, November 2014). 20