A/RES/69/167
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 February 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
69/167. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most
recent of which is resolution 68/179 of 18 December 2013, and recalling also
Human Rights Council resolution 26/21 of 27 June 2014,1
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,
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 all relevant international instruments, particularly the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights3 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 Relations9 and the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,10
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53),
chap. V, sect. A.
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.
10
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
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