A/RES/72/179
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)]
72/179.
Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 70/147 of 17 December 2015, and recalling also Human
Rights Council resolutions 35/17 of 22 June 2017 and 35/5 of 28 September 2017, 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 everywher e 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 from Enforced Disappearance, 5 the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 6 the Convention on the
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841.
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
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