UN Human Rights Treaties

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LIMITED A/C.3/41/L.79 20 November 1986 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: SPANISH Forty-first session THIRD COMMITTEE Agenda item 12 REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Algeria, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Greece, India, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Yugoslavia; draft resolution Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers The General Assembly, Reaffirming once more the permanent validity of the principles and standards embodied in the basic instruments regarding the international protection of human rights, in particular in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 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, 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, 86-31325 3054Z (E) A/C.3/41/L.79 English Page 2 Recalling its resolution 34/172 of 17 December 1979, by 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 and 40/130 of 13 December 1985, by 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 during its seventh meeting, 1/ held from 24 September to 3 October 1986, during the current session of the General Assembly, during which the Group continued with the second reading of the draft convention, Concerned at the fact that, owing to the current financial situation, the Working Group could not meet between sessions of the General Assembly in 1986, immediately after the spring session of the Economic and Social Council, following the practice established for the Group by the General Assembly itself, Taking note of the recommendations of the Working Group to the effect that its Inter-sessional meeting not be suspended again, so as to enable it to complete, as soon as possible, the second reading of the remaining articles of the draft convention, 1. Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Working Group on the Drafting of an International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families 1/ and, in particular, of the progress made by the Working Group on the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention; 2. Decides that, in order to enable it to complete its task as soon as possible, the Working Group shall again hold an inter-sessional meeting of two weeks' duration in New York, immediately after the first regular session of 1987 of the Economic and Social Council; 3. Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to Governments the report of the Working Group so as to enable the members of the Group to continue the drafting, in second reading, of the draft convention during the inter-sessional meeting to be held in the spring of 1987, as well as to transmit the results obtained at that meeting to the General Assembly for consideration during its forty-second session; 1/ See A/C.3/41/3. A/C.3/41/L.79 English Page 3 4. 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; 5. Decides that the Working Group shall meet during the forty-second session of the General Assembly, preferably at the beginning of the session, to continue the second reading of the draft international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to do everything possible to ensure adequate secretariat services for the Working Group for the timely performance of its mandate, both at its inter-sessional meeting to be held after the spring session of the Economic and Social Council in 1987 and during the forty-second regular session of the General Assembly.