A/RES/70/147
Protection of migrants
Persons with Disabilities, 9 the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 10 the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families 11 and the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, 12 in particular the
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 13 and the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 14
Acknowledging the relevant contribution of the International Convention on
the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
to the international system for the protection of migrants,
Recalling the provisions concerning migrants contained in the outcome
documents of major United Nations conferences and summits, including the
Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its
Impact on Development 15 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 16
Recalling also Commission on Population and Development resolutions
2006/2 of 10 May 2006 17 and 2009/1 of 3 April 2009, 18 and its resolution 2013/1 of
26 April 2013 on new trends in migration: demographic aspects, 19
Taking note of advisory opinion OC 16/99 of 1 October 1999 on the Right to
Information on Consular Assistance in the Framework of the Guarantees of the Due
Process of Law, advisory opinion OC 18/03 of 17 September 2003 on the Juridical
Condition and Rights of Undocumented Migrants, and advisory opinion OC 21/1 4
of 19 August 2014 on the Rights and Guarantees of Children in the Context of
Migration and/or in Need of International Protection, issued by the Inter -American
Court of Human Rights,
Taking note also of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice of
31 March 2004 in the case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals 20 and the
Judgment of the Court of 19 January 2009 regarding the request for interpretation of
the Avena Judgment, 21 and recalling the obligations of States reaffirmed in both
decisions,
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9
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 596, No. 8638.
11
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
12
Ibid., vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.
13
Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574.
14
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
15
Resolution 63/303, annex.
16
Resolution 70/1.
17
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 5 (E/2006/25), chap. I,
sect. B.
18
Ibid., 2009, Supplement No. 5 (E/2009/25), chap. I, sect. B.
19
Ibid., 2013, Supplement No. 5 (E/2013/25), chap. I, sect. B.
20
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/59/4), chap. V,
sect. A.
21
Ibid., Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/64/4), chap. V, sect. B.
10
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