an awareness-raising programmecould becarried out through formal and informal educational programmes; (vi) Encourage the media, information and communication sectors to contribute to awareness-raising on migration issues, including on the contributions women migrant workers make to the economy, women's vulnerability to exploitation and discrimination and the various sites at which such exploitation occurs; Regulations and monitoring systems,as follows: (i) States parties should adopt regulations and design monitoring systems to ensure that recruiting agents and employment agencies respectthe rights of all women migrant workers. States parties should includein their legislation a comprehensivedefinition ofirregular recruitment along with a provision on legal sanctions for breaches of the law byrecruitmentagencies(article 2 (e)); (ji) States parties should also implement accreditation programmes to ensure good practices amongrecruitment agencies(article 2 (e)); Health services: States parties should ensurethe provision of standardized and authentic health certificatesif required by countries of destination and require prospective employers to purchase medical insurance for women migrant workers. All required pre-departure HIV/AIDStesting or pre-departure health examinations mustbe respectful of the human rights of women migrants. Special attention should bepaid to voluntariness,the provision offree or affordable services and to the problems ofstigmatization(articles 2 (f) and 12); (e) Travel documents:States parties should ensure that women have equaland independent accessto travel documents(article 2 (d)); (f) Legal and administrative assistance: States parties should ensure the availability of legal assistance in connection with migration for work. For example, legal reviews should be available to ensure that work contracts are valid and protect women'srights on a basis of equality with men (articles 3 and 11); (g) Safeguarding remittances of income: States parties should establish measures to safeguard the remittances of women migrant workers and provide information and assistance to womento accessformalfinancial institutions to send money homeand to encourage them to participate in savings schemes(articles 3 and 11); (h) Facilitating the right to return: States parties should ensure that women who wish to return to their countries of origin are able to do so free of coercion and abuse(article 3); (i) Services to womenuponreturn: States parties should design or oversee comprehensive socio-economic,psychological and legal services aimedatfacilitating the reintegration of women whohavereturned. They should monitor service providers to ensure that they do not take advantageof the vulnerable position of womenreturning from work abroad, and should have complaint mechanisms toprotect the womenagainstreprisals by recruiters, employersor former spouses(articles 2 (c) and 3); (j) Diplomatic and consular protection: States parties must properly train and supervise their diplomatic and consular staff to ensure thattheyfulfil their role in protecting the rights of women migrant workers abroad. Suchprotection shouldinclude quality support servicesavailable to womenmigrants, including timely provision of interpreters, medical care, counselling, legal aid and shelter when needed. WhereStates parties have specific obligations under customary internationallaw ortreaties such as the Vienna Convention on ConsularRelations, those obligations mustbe carried outin full in relation to women migrant workers(article 3); Responsibilities specific bemenee)maetig 25. States parties through which migrant women travel should takeall appropriate steps to ensurethattheir territories are not usedtofacilitate the violation of the rights of women migrant workers. Measures that may berequiredinclude,butare notlimitedto, the following: 21

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