A/HRC/35/10 factors determine the health status of women, whereby special attention should be given to the health needs and rights of women belonging to disadvantaged groups, such as migrant women, refugee and internally displaced women, the girl child or indigenous women. 13. In its general recommendation No. 26, the Committee also noted that women migrant workers often experience intersecting forms of discrimination, suffering not only sex- and gender-based discrimination, but also xenophobia and racism. Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, cultural particularities, nationality, language, religion or other status may be expressed in sex- and gender-specific ways. III. Impact of intersecting forms of discrimination on women’s and girls’ lives A. Socioeconomic exclusion and poverty 14. The Durban Declaration acknowledged that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance can be among the factors leading to a deterioration in women’s and girls’ living conditions, poverty, violence, multiple forms of discrimination, and the limitation or denial of women’s and girls’ human rights. Women and girls who are affected by intersectional discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity, work and descent or religion often lack economic opportunities and decent work, and are overrepresented in low paid, often exploitative jobs such as domestic work (see for example A/HRC/27/68/Add.1, para. 83). In 2013, there were 53 million domestic workers worldwide, 83 per cent of whom were women, many belonging to racial or ethnic minorities.4 15. According to the International Labour Organization, about half of the world’s migrants are women.5 Poverty and discrimination are considered significant drivers of migration (see A/70/59, para. 9). The majority of women migrant workers are being channelled into traditionally female-dominated occupations, such as domestic work or in the garment and textile industries abroad, where they often work in precarious conditions. They are frequently excluded from labour law protection, affected by discriminatory residence regulations, such as sponsorship systems, and face the risk of a number of human rights abuses, including violence and forced labour.6 4 5 6 4 International Labour Office, Domestic workers across the world: Global and regional statistics and the extent of legal protection, Geneva, 2013. See www.ilo.org/global/topics/labour-migration/policy-areas/migrant-domestic-workers/lang-en/index.htm. In the absence of a universal legal definition, OHCHR, in its Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders, defines the term “international migrant” as “any person who is outside a State of which he or she is a citizen or national, or, in the case of a stateless person, his or her State of birth or habitual residence”. OHCHR, Behind closed doors: Protecting and promoting the human rights of migrant domestic workers in an irregular situation, New York and Geneva, 2015. See also Ray Jureidini, “Migrant workers and xenophobia in the Middle East”, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, programme paper No. 2, December 2003.