A/RES/70/147
United Nations
Distr.: General
25 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/489/Add.2)]
70/147. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 69/167 of 18 December 2014, and recalling also
Human Rights Council resolution 29/2 of 2 July 2015, 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,
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,
Reaffirming further that everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a
person before the law,
Recalling all relevant international instruments, particularly 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 International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons fro m Enforced Disappearance, 5 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 6 the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 8 the Convention on the Rights of
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. V,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841.
5
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
6
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
7
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
8
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
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