A/RES/57/218
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 109 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.2 and Corr.1-3)]
57/218. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/170 of 19 December 2001,
Reaffirming that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights1 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,
Reaffirming also the provisions concerning migrants adopted by the World
Conference on Human Rights, 2 the International Conference on Population and
Development, 3 the World Summit for Social Development 4 and the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 5
Welcoming the provisions on the human rights of migrants contained in the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance on
8 September 2001, 6 and expressing its satisfaction about the important
recommendations made for the development of international and national strategies
for the protection of migrants and for the design of migration policies that fully
respect the human rights of migrants,
Recalling its resolution 40/144 of 13 December 1985, by which it approved the
Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the
Country in which They Live,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
4
See Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
5
See Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
6
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
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