A/HRC/RES/20/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 July 2012
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twentieth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
20/3.
Human rights of migrants
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 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, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
property, birth or other status,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights
of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations, the International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Convention against
Discrimination in Education,
Recalling also previous resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on
Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the protection of the human rights of
migrants and the work of various special mechanisms of the Council that have reported on
the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants,
Stressing the obligation of States to protect the human rights of migrants, regardless
of their legal status, in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the
international instruments to which they are party,
GE.12- 15297
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twentieth session (A/HRC/20/2), chap. I.