A/RES/69/229
International migration and development
achieving the Millennium Development Goals, convened by the President of the
General Assembly on 25 September 2013, and its outcome document,8
Recalling further the Second High-level Dialogue on International Migration and
Development, held in New York on 3 and 4 October 2013, which provided a useful
opportunity to address constructively the issue of international migration and
development and explore the opportunities and the challenges that international
migration presents, including the protection of the human rights of migrants and the
contribution of migrants to development, as reflected in the summary of its four round
tables,
Recalling the regional events organized in 2013 in Bangkok from 29 to 31 May, in
Cairo on 4 and 5 June, in Addis Ababa on 3 and 4 July and in Santiago on 10 and
11 July, during the preparatory process for the Second High-level Dialogue on
International Migration and Development, as well as the preparatory events on
international migration and development organized by the President of the General
Assembly,
Recalling also its resolution 68/309 of 10 September 2014, in which it welcomed
the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals9 and decided
that the proposal of the Open Working Group contained in the report shall be the main
basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development
agenda, while recognizing that other inputs will also be considered, in the
intergovernmental negotiation process at the sixty-ninth session of the General
Assembly,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 and recalling the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,11 the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,11 the International Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 12 the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women 13 and the Convention on the Rights of the
Child,14
Recalling the importance of the decent work agenda of the International Labour
Organization, including for migrant workers, the eight fundamental Conventions of that
Organization and the Global Jobs Pact adopted by the International Labour Conference
at its ninety-eighth session as a general framework within which each country can
formulate policy packages specific to its situation and national priorities in order to
promote a job-intensive recovery and sustainable development,
Taking note of the Secretary-General’s eight-point agenda for action,15 which is
aligned with the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and
Development, and noting the contribution of civil society,
Recognizing the contribution of the Global Forum on Migration and Development
to addressing the multidimensional nature of international migration and promoting
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8
Resolution 68/6.
A/68/970 and Corr.1.
10
Resolution 217 A (III).
11
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
12
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
13
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
14
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
15
See A/68/190.
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