A/RES/66/172
the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families, 10
Recalling also the provisions concerning migrants contained in the outcome
documents of all major United Nations conferences and summits, including the
Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its
Impact on Development, 11 which recognizes that migrant workers are among the
most affected and vulnerable in the context of financial and economic crises,
Recalling further Commission on Population and Development resolutions
2006/2 of 10 May 2006 12 and 2009/1 of 3 April 2009, 13
Taking note with appreciation of the United Nations Development Programme
Human Development Report 2009: Overcoming Barriers — Human Mobility and
Development, 14
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 Undocumented Migrants, issued by the
Inter-American 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 15 and the
Judgment of the Court of 19 January 2009 regarding the request for interpretation of
the Avena Judgment, 16 and recalling the obligations of States reaffirmed in both
decisions,
Underlining the importance of the Human Rights Council in promoting respect
for the protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all, including
migrants,
Recognizing the increasing participation of women in international migration
movements,
Recalling the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development,
held in New York on 14 and 15 September 2006 for the purpose of discussing the
multidimensional aspects of international migration and development, which,
inter alia, recognized the relationship between international migration, development
and human rights,
Noting that the fifth meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and
Development, held in Geneva on 1 and 2 December 2011, drew together the results
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10
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
Resolution 63/303, annex.
12
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 5 (E/2006/25), chap. I,
sect. B.
13
Ibid., 2009, Supplement No. 5 (E/2009/25), chap. I, sect. B.
14
United Nations publication, Sales No. E.09.III.B.1.
15
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/59/4), chap. V,
sect. A.23; see also Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America), Judgment,
I.C.J. Reports 2004, p. 12.
16
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/64/4), chap. V,
sect. B.12; see also Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case concerning
Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America) (Mexico v. United States of
America), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2009, p. 3.
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