A/HRC/RES/33/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 October 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-third session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2016
33/7.
Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and
human rights
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, colour, 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 and the Optional Protocol thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land,
Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 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, the Convention against
Discrimination in Education, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and
the 1967 Protocol thereto, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No.
182) of the International Labour Organization,
Recalling also all previous resolutions of the General Assembly on the protection of
the human rights of migrants, in particular those relating to the situation of unaccompanied
migrant children and adolescents, such as Assembly resolution 69/187 of 18 December
2014, Human Rights Council resolutions on the protection of the human rights of migrants,
in particular resolution 29/12 of 1 July 2015, the work of various special mechanisms of the
Council that have reported on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of
migrants, Commission on Population and Development resolution 2013/1 of 26 April 2013,
GE.16-17240(E)