Protection of migrants 2003, para. 19

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Requests States to adopt concrete measures to prevent the violation of the human rights of migrants while in transit, including in ports and airports and at borders and migration checkpoints, to train public officials who work in those facilities and in border areas to treat migrants and their families respectfully and in accordance with the law, and to prosecute, in conformity with applicable law, any act of violation of the human rights of migrants and their families, such as arbitrary detention, torture and violations of the right to life, including extrajudicial executions, during their transit from their country of origin to the country of destination and vice versa, including their transit through national borders;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
Year
2003
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Protection of migrants (2003), A/RES/58/190, OP 19.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
19