A/HRC/RES/17/22
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth 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∗
17/22 Migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing recent events in North
Africa
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, such as race, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, colour or national or social origin, property,
birth or other status, including the right to life and security of the person,
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 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and the
Protocol thereto of 1967,
Underlining the important role of the Human Rights Council in promoting respect
for the protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all, including those of
migrants and asylum-seekers,
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
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