DRAFT CEDAW General recommendation on Trafficking in
Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration
101.
The United Nations specialized agencies, rapporteurs and experts are invited to
provide country and regional-specific input to the Committee on the situation of
trafficking in women and girls as appropriate to the State party under review.
102.
This general recommendation should be translated into local languages, including
indigenous and minority languages, provide summaries in clear language, and
disseminated widely to all branches of government, civil society, the media, academic
institutions, women’s rights organizations, the private sector and financial institutions.
VIII. Treaty ratification or accession
103.
States parties are encouraged to ratify or accede to the:
a) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women;
b) Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by
Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime;253
c) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography;254
d) International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
and Members of Their Families;255
e) ILO Labour rights framework, including for the governance of labour
migration and protection of migrant workers.256
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para. 25(e), CEDAW/C/MDV/CO/4-5.
para. R(e), CEDAW/C/LIE/CO/4.
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para. 31, CEDAW/C/ROU/CO/7-8.
256
ILO: Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97) and its accompanying
Migration for Employment Recommendation (Revised), 1949 (No. 86); ILO Migrant Workers
(Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) together with the Migrant Workers
Recommendation, 1975 (No. 151). Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181) (ref. in
para. 20(c), CEDAW/C/CYP/CO/6-7), and the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) (ref in
para. 25(c), CEDAW/C/GAB/CO/6; 38(b), CEDAW/C/LBN/CO/4-5); Discrimination (Employment
and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) (35(d), CEDAW/C/SGP/CO/5); Freedom of Association
and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87); Right to Organise and Collective
Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) (ref. in para. 37(f), CEDAW/C/THA/CO/6-7).
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