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 __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 17-23170 (E) 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. 010218 *1723170*

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