Various forms of violence committed against migrant and trafficked women 8. State policy to summarily deport victims of trafficking 9. Victimization of primarily Asian women in the mail-order bride business 10. Denial of the right to suffrage in absentia in the migrant's home country Undocumented migrants are doubly at risk to racial discrimination and xenophobia. Their lack of legal status is often used to justify denial of basic human rights, e.g. access to redress mechanisms.
Clandestine entry becomes the only recourse.
On this occasion, we wish to call the attention of the international community to the pressing need to give serious and urgent attention to the violation of migrants' rights in certain countries in Western Asia. Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and all other pertinent international instruments for the protection of fundamental human rights to ensure non-discrimination towards all persons and the protection of their basic rights and dignity. Investigate and address the root causes of migration and trafficking including poverty, political and social oppression, ethnic, religious, gender and caste-based discrimination and situations of violence and armed conflict. Create and institutionalize national and regional intergovernmental mechanisms, in cooperation with NGOs and migrants' organizations to monitor and act on cases of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and gender-based violence committed against migrants and trafficked persons in host and transit countires. Stop deregulation of the labor export industry as it will further erode accountability of sending countries to migrants and give more power to non-state agencies such as private recruitment agencies and trafficking syndicates to perpetuate the racial divide to the detriment of migrant workers and trafficked persons.