A/RES/64/166
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.2 (Part II))]
64/166. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 63/184 of 18 December 2008, and recalling also
Human Rights Council resolution 12/6 of 1 October 2009, 1
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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, colour or national origin,
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Reaffirming also that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of each State, and to leave any country, including his
own, and return to his country,
Recalling 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 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 7 the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, 8 the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 9 and the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families, 10
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1
See A/HRC/12/50, part one, chap. I.
Resolution 217 A (III).
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841.
5
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
6
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
7
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
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Resolution 61/106, annex I.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 596, No. 8638.
10
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
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