A/HRC/RES/15/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 October 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
15/16
Human rights of migrants
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 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 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights
of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention on the Protection of
the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,
Recalling also the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime and the Protocols thereto, reaffirming the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the Protocol against the
Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and recalling the Convention for the
Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others,
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GE.10-16677
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.