United Nations General Assembly A/RES/56/203 Distr.: General 21 February 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 100 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/56/563)] 56/203. International migration and development The General Assembly, Recalling the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development adopted at Cairo, 1 in particular chapter X on international migration, and the key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action, set out in the annex to General Assembly resolution S-21/2 of 2 July 1999, in particular section II.C on international migration, as well as the relevant provisions contained in the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, 2 the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 3 the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women 4 and the outcome documents of the twenty-fourth 5 and twenty-fifth 6 special sessions of the General Assembly, Recalling also its resolutions 49/127 of 19 December 1994, 50/123 of 20 December 1995, 52/189 of 18 December 1997 and 54/212 of 22 December 1999 on international migration and development, as well as Economic and Social Council decision 1995/313 of 27 July 1995, Reaffirming the continuing validity of the principles set forth in international instruments regarding the protection of human rights, in particular Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 7 the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,8 the Convention on the the the the _______________ 1 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 2 Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 3 Ibid., annex II. 4 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 5 Resolution S-24/2, annex. 6 Resolution S-25/2, annex. 7 Resolution 217 A (III). 8 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 01 49309