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JNITED A NATIONS General Assembly Distr. LIMITED A/C.3/44/L.74 24 November 1989 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: SPANISH Forty-fourth session THIRD COMMITTEE Agenda item 12 REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, BOLIVIA. Brazil, Colfltribia, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece, India, Italy, Mali, Mauritania Mexico, Morocco, Nica- rogue,-Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, Tunisia and Yugoslavia; draft resolution Measures. to improve .the situation and ensure the human rights and qignity of all migrant The General Assembly, Reaffirming once more the permanent validity of the principles and standards set forth in the basic instruments regarding the international protection of human rights, in particular in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1/ the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2_/ the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 3/ and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4/ Bearing in mind the principles and standards established within the framework of the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the importance of the task carried out in connection with migrant workers and their families in other specialized agencies and in various organs of the United Nations, 1/ Resolution 217 A (III). 2/ See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 2/ Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 4/ Resolution 34/180, annex. 89-30111 1815Z (E) A/C.3/44/L.74 English Page 2 Reiterating that, in spite of the existence of an already established body of principles and standards, there is a need to make further efforts to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers and their families, Recalling its resolution 34/172 of 17 December 1979, in which it decided to establish 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 its 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, 40/130 of 13 December 1985, 41/151 of 4 December 1986, 42/140 of 7 December 1987, and 43/146 of 8 December 1988, in which it renewed the mandate 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 requested it to continue its work, Having examined the progress made by the Working Group at its eighth inter-sessional meeting, held from 31 May to 9 June 1989, and at the current session of the General Assembly, from 26 September to 6 October 1989, during which the Working Group continued with the second reading of the draft convention, 1. Takes note with satisfaction of the two most recent 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 5./ and, in particular, of the progress made by the Working Group on the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to entrust to the Centre for Human Rights the technical revision of the text of the articles of the draft convention that have been approved so far by the Working Group in second reading, with a view to ensuring uniformity of terminology and gender and harmonizing the versions in the official languages of the United Nations, bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 41/120 of 4 December 1986, and to transmit the results of this technical revision to Governments as soon as possible, and at least one month before the next meeting of the Working Group, in 1990; 3. Decides that the Working Group shall hold a meeting of two weeks' duration in New York, immediately after the first regular session of 1990 of the Economic and Social Council, with a view to completing the remaining articles and considering the results of the teaching revision of the draft convention; 4. Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to Governments the two most recent reports of the Working Group so as to enable the members of to Working Group to finish the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention during the 5/ A/C.3/44/1 and A/C.3/44/4. 7 C.3/44/L.74 Mish meeting to be held in the spring of 1990, as well as to transmit the results obtained at that meeting to the General Assembly so that it may take a decision during its forty-fifth session; 5. Also invites the Secretary-General to transmit the above-mentioned documents to the competent organs of the United Nations and to the international organizations concerned, for their information, so as to enable them to continue their co-operation with the Working Group; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to do everything possible to ensure adequate Secretariat services for the Working Group for the timely completion of its mandate during the meeting to be held immediately after the first regular session of 1990 of the Economic and Social Council. Digitized by Dag Hammarskjold Library