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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2015, para. 7
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- Mindful of the fact that, in the fulfilment of their obligations to promote, protect and respect human rights, States of origin, transit and destination can benefit from schemes of international cooperation,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
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Mandate of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons 2007, para. 3
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- Expresses concern at the persistent problems of large numbers of internally displaced persons worldwide, in particular the risk of extreme poverty and socio-economic exclusion, their limited access to humanitarian assistance, vulnerability to human rights violations and difficulties resulting from their specific situation, such as lack of food, medication or shelter and issues pertinent during their reintegration, including, in appropriate cases, the need for the restitution of or compensation for property;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 13
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- Notes with concern the large number of children, particularly girls, belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, migrant children, refugee children, internally displaced children and children of indigenous origin among the victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, stresses the need to incorporate special measures, in accordance with the principle of the best interests of the child and respect for his or her views, and the child's gender-specific needs, in education programmes and programmes to combat these practices, and calls upon States to provide special support and ensure equal access to services for those children;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2008
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The human rights of migrants: migration and the human rights of the child 2009, para. 13
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- Bearing in mind that policies and initiatives on the issue of migration, including those that refer to the orderly management of migration, should promote holistic approaches that take into account the causes and consequences and challenges and opportunities of the phenomenon and full respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, with due regard for the specific needs of children in vulnerable situations, such as unaccompanied children, girls, children with disabilities and those who may be in need of international refugee protection,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph
The human rights of migrants 2011, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the efforts made to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2012, para. 16
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- Notes with concern the large number of children belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, migrant children, refugee or asylum-seeking children, internally displaced children and children of indigenous origin that are victims of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and stresses the need to incorporate special measures, in accordance with the principle of the best interests of the child and respect for his or her views and the child’s gender-specific needs, in education programmes and programmes to combat these practices, and calls upon States to provide special support and to ensure equal access to services for those children;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Human rights of internally displaced persons 2012, para. 11
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- Expresses concern at the persistent problems of the large numbers of internally displaced persons worldwide, in particular the risk of extreme poverty and socioeconomic exclusion, their limited access to humanitarian assistance, vulnerability to human rights violations and difficulties resulting from their specific situation, such as lack of food, medication or shelter, and issues pertinent during their reintegration, including, in appropriate cases, the need for the restitution of or compensation for property;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Human rights of internally displaced persons 2012, para. 13
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- Expresses particular concern at the grave problems faced by many internally displaced women and children, including violence and abuse, sexual exploitation, trafficking in persons, forced recruitment and abduction, and encourages the continued commitment of the Special Rapporteur to promote action to address their particular assistance, protection and development needs, as well as those of other groups with special needs, such as severely traumatized individuals, older persons and persons with disabilities, taking into account all relevant United Nations resolutions;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Human rights of internally displaced persons 2012, para. 24
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- Emphasizes the importance of the effective collection of data, disaggregated by age, sex, diversity and location, on internally displaced persons for the protection of their human rights, the implementation of durable solutions and the assessment of their specific needs and vulnerabilities, and encourages Governments to use, on a voluntary basis, the services of the Inter-Agency Joint Internally Displaced Person Profiling Service, which has been set up to offer technical support in this regard;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Promotion and protection of human rights in post-disaster and post-conflict situations 2013, para. 6
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- Noting that different thematic special procedures mandate holders, including the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, have made specific references in their reports to the need for a human rights-based approach to the delivery of humanitarian assistance,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants 2013, para. 12
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- Emphasizing the global character of the migratory phenomenon, the importance of international, regional and bilateral cooperation, built on a partnership approach, and the need to protect the human rights of migrants, particularly at a time in which the increased regional and global mobility of persons, the structural changes in the global economy, and the ongoing adverse impact of the world financial and economic crisis generates new opportunities and challenges for countries of origin, transit and destination,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
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Human rights of migrants 2013, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the valuable economic, social and cultural contributions of migrants to the communities of countries of origin and destination,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
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Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 29
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- Further calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including sufficient budgetary allocations, to ensure inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory quality education and to promote learning opportunities for all children, and urges States to pay special attention in that regard to children with disabilities and children in vulnerable situations, such as indigenous children, members of minorities, refugees, migrants, undocumented and stateless children, married or pregnant children and adolescents, and adolescent mothers, children living in poverty, and any other marginalized or disadvantaged child, as well as for children in armed conflict or emergency situations;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
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The right to a nationality: Women’s Equal Nationality Rights in Law and in Practice 2016, para. 8
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- Calls upon States to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers, especially those targeting women, that impede access to registration of vital life events including birth, marriage and death registration, and including late registration and associated fees, paying due attention to, among others, barriers relating to poverty, age, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable groups, and to remove barriers to birth registration based on discrimination against unwed mothers;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
Promotion of the right of migrants to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2014, para. 14
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- Taking note of the seventh Global Forum on Migration and Development, which highlighted that migrants’ access to basic services, including health services, is one way to ensure that migrants are not excluded from the goals that will be articulated by the international community for the post-2015 development agenda, and emphasized the importance of facilitating access to regular forms of migration and, where applicable, to social services, including health goods, services and conditions, that contribute to the prosperity of countries of origin, transit and destination and to the strengthening of the empowerment and personal development prospects and outcomes for migrants and their families,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Promotion of the right of migrants to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2014, para. 16
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- Noting the observation made by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in his report submitted to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-third session, that States should adopt and implement an effective national health policy that does not discriminate against non-nationals and that addresses the needs of irregular and regular migrants, at all stages of the migration process, and that States should ensure the availability and accessibility of quality health facilities, goods and services, including existing health insurance schemes, to migrants, on the basis of equality with other nationals,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Promotion of the right of migrants to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2014, para. 8a
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- [Calls upon all States to ensure that their immigration policies are consistent with their obligations under international human rights law, and to promote the enjoyment of human rights by all migrants without discrimination, including by taking steps:] To promote and protect the right of all persons to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health without discrimination of any kind and, to this end, to provide emergency medical and first-aid attention for migrants who need it, regardless of their immigration status, and to create a safe and enabling environment in which individuals and organizations that provide such attention can operate free from hindrance and insecurity;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
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Promotion of the right of migrants to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2014, para. 8c
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- [Calls upon all States to ensure that their immigration policies are consistent with their obligations under international human rights law, and to promote the enjoyment of human rights by all migrants without discrimination, including by taking steps:] To the effect that domestic law and administrative provisions and their application facilitate the work of medical personnel and staff, humanitarian workers, human rights defenders and any other actor providing humanitarian assistance to and defending the human rights of irregular migrants, including by avoiding any criminalization, stigmatization, impediments, obstructions or restrictions thereof contrary to international human rights law;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2015, para. 3
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- Encourages States of origin, transit and destination to continue to seek greater cooperation and technical assistance with all relevant stakeholders in different areas in order to identify jointly alternatives to reduce, mitigate and eliminate the causes and structural factors that lead to irregular migration so as to prevent minors from feeling compelled to migrate from their communities, while taking into account the need to promote capacity-building activities;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
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The human rights of migrants: migration and the human rights of the child 2009, para. 5a
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- [Calls upon States of destination to protect effectively the human rights of children in the context of migration, without discrimination of any kind and, in this regard:] To ensure for migrant children, regardless of their legal status, the enjoyment of all human rights and, in accordance with their national laws and any relevant international obligations, appropriate access to health care and social services;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph
Human rights of migrants 2010, para. 6a
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- [Requests States, recognizing the efforts made in this regard, to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, and:] To effectively promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, including, in particular, the right to life and physical integrity, especially that of women and children, regardless of their immigration status, in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international instruments to which they are party;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2010
Paragraph
The human rights of migrants 2011, para. 9
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- Bearing in mind the obligations of States under international law, as applicable, to exercise due diligence to prevent crimes against migrants, including those perpetrated with racist or xenophobic motivations, to investigate such crimes and to punish the perpetrators, and that not doing so violates – and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of – the human rights and fundamental freedoms of victims, and urging States to reinforce measures in this regard, including international cooperation,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
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Human rights of migrants 2012, para. 11
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- Considering the need for all relevant stakeholders to achieve the goals of the Education for All initiative as well as Millennium Development Goal 2, as contained in the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, by, inter alia, tackling persistent economic and social inequalities, including on the basis of such factors as income, gender, location, ethnicity, language and disability, and noting the role that good governance can play in that regard,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons 2013, para. 9
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- Urges States and other relevant actors to take into account the specific needs of persons with disabilities and of the elderly when promoting and ensuring the protection of the human rights of internally displaced persons, in particular by ensuring that persons with disabilities and the elderly have equal access to assistance, protection and rehabilitation services;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2016, para. 24
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- Urges relevant United Nations human rights mechanisms and appropriate treaty bodies, and encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to continue to collect information on the issue of human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality from all relevant sources, and to take account of such information, together with any recommendations thereon, in their reports and activities conducted within their respective mandates;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
Protection of the human rights of migrants: strengthening the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants, including in large movements 2016, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims 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,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
Protection of the human rights of migrants: strengthening the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants, including in large movements 2016, para. 9
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- Calls upon all States to ensure that their immigration policies are consistent with their obligations under international human rights law, and to promote the enjoyment of human rights by all migrants without discrimination;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
Protection of the human rights of migrants: migrants in transit 2015, para. 7i
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- [Calls upon all States to ensure that their immigration policies are consistent with their obligations under international human rights law, and to promote the enjoyment of human rights by all migrants without discrimination, including by taking steps:] To adopt a comprehensive and integral approach to migration policies and cooperate at the international level on the basis of shared responsibility to harness fully the economic developments and cultural and social opportunities that migration represents and to address efficiently its challenges in line with international human rights standards;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
Paragraph
The human rights of migrants 2008, para. 4b
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- [Stresses the importance of international, regional and bilateral cooperation in the protection of the human rights of migrants, and therefore:] Encourages States to consider participating in international and regional dialogues on migration that include sending and receiving countries, as well as countries of transit, and invites them to consider negotiating bilateral and regional agreements on migrant workers in the framework of applicable human rights law and designing and implementing programmes with States of other regions to protect the rights of migrants;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2008
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 4
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- Deeply concerned that all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination and disadvantage, can lead to the particular targeting or vulnerability to violence of girls and some groups of women, such as women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee and internally displaced women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, women with disabilities, elderly women, widows and women in situations of armed conflict, women who are otherwise discriminated against, including on the basis of HIV status, and victims of commercial sexual exploitation,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph