A/RES/60/169
Reaffirming also the provisions on the human rights of migrants contained in the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance on
8 September 2001, 8 and expressing its satisfaction at the important recommendations
made for the development of international and national strategies for the protection of
migrants and for the design of migration policies that fully respect the human rights of
migrants,
Recalling the renewed commitment made in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration 9 and at the 2005 World Summit 10 to take measures to ensure respect for
and protection of the human rights of migrants, migrant workers and their families,
to eliminate the increasing acts of racism and xenophobia in many societies and to
promote greater harmony, tolerance and respect in all societies,
Taking note of advisory opinion OC-16/99 of 1 October 1999 on the Right to
Information on Consular Assistance in the Framework of the Guarantees of the Due
Process of Law and advisory opinion OC-18/03 of 17 September 2003 on the
Juridical Condition and Rights of the Undocumented Migrants, issued by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights,
Taking note also of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice of
31 March 2004 in the case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals, 11 and
recalling the obligations of States reaffirmed therein,
Encouraged by the increasing interest of the international community in the
effective and full protection of the human rights of all migrants, and underlining the
need to make further efforts to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental
freedoms of all migrants,
Aware of the increasing number of migrants worldwide, and bearing in mind
the situation of vulnerability in which migrants and their accompanying families can
find themselves when outside their States of origin owing, inter alia, to the
difficulties they encounter because of discrimination in society, differences of
language, custom and culture, as well as the economic and social difficulties and
obstacles to the return of migrants to their States of origin, especially those who are
undocumented or in an irregular migratory situation,
Emphasizing the global character of the migratory phenomenon, the
importance of international, regional and bilateral cooperation and dialogue in this
regard, as appropriate, and the need to protect the human rights of migrants,
particularly at a time in which migration flows have increased in the globalized
economy and take place in a context of new security concerns,
Bearing in mind that policies and initiatives on the issue of migration,
including those that refer to the orderly management of migration, should promote
holistic approaches that take into account the causes and consequences of the
phenomenon, as well as the full respect of the human rights and fundamental
freedoms of migrants,
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8
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
See resolution 55/2.
10
See resolution 60/1.
11
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/59/4), chap. V,
sect. A.23.
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