A/RES/63/184
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 March 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 64 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.2)]
63/184. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 62/156 of 18 December 2007, and recalling also
Human Rights Council resolution 9/5 of 24 September 2008, 1
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Reaffirming, in the year of its sixtieth anniversary, the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, 2 which proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out
therein, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race, colour or national
origin,
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Reaffirming also that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of each State, and to leave any country, including his
own, and return to his country,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 3 and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,3 the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 4
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 7 the Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations 8 and the International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 9
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1),
chap. I.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841.
5
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
6
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
7
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
8
Ibid., vol. 596, No. 8638.
9
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
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