A/RES/60/169
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 March 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part II))]
60/169. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 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,
Recalling its resolution 59/194 of 20 December 2004, taking note of
Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/47 of 19 April 2005, 2 and recalling
its resolution 40/144 of 13 December 1985, by which it adopted the Declaration on
the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which
They Live,
Considering that every State party to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights 3 must ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its
jurisdiction the rights recognized in the Covenant, and that every State party to the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights3 has undertaken to
guarantee the exercise of all rights enunciated in that Covenant without
discrimination of any kind, including, in particular, on the basis of national origin,
Reaffirming the provisions concerning migrants adopted by the World
Conference on Human Rights, 4 the International Conference on Population and
Development, 5 the World Summit for Social Development 6 and the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 7
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2005/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
5
See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
6
See Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
7
See Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
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