A/RES/66/172
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 March 2012
Sixty-sixth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2011
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/66/462/Add.2)]
66/172. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 65/212 of 21 December 2010, and recalling also
Human Rights Council resolution 18/21 of 30 September 2011, 1
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,
Reaffirming also that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of each State and the right to leave any country,
including his or her own, and to return to his or her 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
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum
(A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
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.
8
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
9
Ibid., vol. 596, No. 8638.
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