A/RES/76/172
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.2, para. 114)]
76/172.
Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 74/148 of 18 December 2019, and recalling also Human
Rights Council resolutions 35/17 of 22 June 2017, 1 36/5 of 28 September 2017, 2 41/7
of 11 July 2019 3 and 47/12 of 12 July 2021, 4
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 5 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 that everyone has the right to leave any
country, including his or her own, and to return to his or her country,
Reiterating that everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person
before the law,
Recognizing that all migrants, regardless of their migration status, are human
rights holders, and reaffirming the need to protect their safety, dignity, human rights
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/74/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/76/53), chap. VII, sect. A.
Resolution 217 A (III).
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