13. Urges all States to adopt effective measures to put an end to the arbitrary arrest and detention of women migrant workers and to take action to prevent and punish any form of illegal deprivation of the liberty of women migrant workers by individuals or groups

Information was also provided regarding activities of a number of Government organs and offices in the protection of migrant workers, including initiatives taken with a view to facilitating visa procedures for foreigners and migrant workers in the country and to putting an end to arbitrary detention of migrants.

Migrant children

Lebanon's migrant work force was large, and migrant workers faced violence and exploitation.

(a) Migrant workers

Working conditions in host countries are worse for rural migrant women than they are for rural migrant men and urban migrant men and women.

Detention

of All Migrant Workers and

Rural, indigenous and migrant women

Violence against women migrant workers

With regard to migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, she said it was vital to employ properly trained border guards in order to ensure respect for migrants' human rights, particularly in detention centres, where women and children were placed.

Illegal detention

Preventative Detention

Arbitrary detention

Arbitrary detention

specific groups and individuals migrant workers

B. Pretrial detention

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2005 Arbitrary detention

62 132. Violence against women migrant workers

58 143. Violence against women migrant workers

60 139. Violence against women migrant workers

56 131. Violence against women migrant workers

It wishes to receive statistical data, disaggregated by nationality and length of detention, relating to persons held under such detention, including in offshore detention centres.

Protection of the unity of the families of migrant workers and reunification of migrant workers consequences of death or dissolution of marriage.

What was the maximum length of time a person could be held in pre trial detention without being able to communicate with anyone outside the detention facility? The delegation had informed the Committee that when pre trial detention was extended, it became court detention rather than police detention.

Substantive issues Arbitrary detention right to take proceedings before court to challenge lawfulness of detention

Approximately 79 per cent of the overall cost for detention services relates to detention guards.

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Migrant women were particularly likely to suffer violence.

(ii) Rights of migrant workers including domestic workers

The Indonesian Migrant Workers Consortium or KOPBUMI has estimated that there are 1,000,000 Indonesian migrant workers and about 20 percent are trafficked each year.

A new preventative detention regime that allows detention for up to 48 hours in a terrorism situation.

There is continued concern about the situation of women in detention and the issue of illegal detention.

They have also hosted local migrant celebrations, like a Nepalese New Year celebration, and have helped sell African and Asian food and other migrant products.

In the detention cases, the victim has been found to be within the jurisdiction in relation to violations associated with detention, such as alleged unlawful detention or alleged ill treatment.

(j) At the poor conditions of detention and long pre trial detention periods of up to three years

However, they did not present an arrest warrant, detention order, or any other written document justifying the detention.

(i) Consider amending its legislation and practice relating to pre trial detention, so that such detention is imposed only as an exceptional measure, taking into account the recommendations on alternatives to pre trial detention adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in December 2003

Women who are under temporary detention and violate regulations of the detention center and thus are subject to punishment of isolated detention in a separate room will not be fettered like men.

In response, UNHCR and its partners sought access to detention sites, reporting on conditions and exploring alternatives to detention.

If such an order was issued, the detainee was thereafter held in court detention as opposed to police detention.

Amnesty International, Protecting Migrant Workers' Rights, The Wire (Dec. 2004).