A/HRC/RES/43/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 June 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
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
on 19 June 2020
43/6.
Human rights of migrants: mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the
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, sex, religion or national origin,
Recalling all international norms and standards relevant to the human rights of
migrants,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1999/44 of 27 April 1999,
2002/62 of 25 April 2002 and 2005/47 of 19 April 2005, General Assembly and Human
Rights Council resolutions on the human rights of migrants, and Council resolutions 8/10 of
18 June 2008, 17/12 of 17 June 2011, 26/19 of 26 June 2014 and 34/21 of 24 March 2017
entitled “Human rights of migrants: mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights
of migrants”,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on the institution-building of the Human Rights Council,
and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of
18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Resolved to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all
migrants,
1.
Decides to extend for a period of three years, effective from the end of its fortyfourth session, the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, with
the following functions:
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