A/RES/61/165 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 February 2007 Sixty-first session Agenda item 67 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/443/Add.2 and Corr.1)] 61/165. Protection of migrants The General Assembly, Recalling all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most recent of which is resolution 60/169 of 16 December 2005, and recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/47 of 19 April 2005, 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, colour or national origin, Reaffirming also that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State, and to leave any country, including his own, and return to his country, Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 3 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 and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 8 Recalling also the provisions concerning migrants contained in the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and summits, _______________ 1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum (E/2005/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, 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. 2220, No. 39481. 06-50433