A/RES/65/212
United Nations
Distr.: General
1 April 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/456/Add.2 (Part II))]
65/212. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 64/166 of 18 December 2009, and recalling also
Human Rights Council resolution 15/16 of 30 September 2010, 1
Reaffirming 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,
Reaffirming also that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of each State and the right to leave any country,
including his or her own, and to return to his or her 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 Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, 8 the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 9 and the
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),
chap. II.
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
Resolution 61/106, annex I.
9
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 596, No. 8638.
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