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Protection of migrants 2017, para. 16

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Invites the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants to submit his report to the General Assembly and to engage in an interactive dialogue at its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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A world fit for children 2002, para. 44.29

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[To achieve these goals, we will implement the following strategies and actions:] Give priority to programmes for family tracing and reunification, and continue to monitor the care arrangements for unaccompanied and/or separated refugee and internally displaced children.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
Year
2002
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2015, para. 16

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the promotion and protection of human rights, including ways and means to promote the human rights of migrants, and notes the recommendations on migrant domestic workers contained therein;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2015, para. 18

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Acknowledging the complexity of migratory flows and that international migration movements also occur within the same geographical regions, and in this context calling for a better understanding of migration patterns across and within regions,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Migrant children and adolescents 2014, para. 9

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Encouraging States to adopt alternatives to detention that take into account the best interests of the child, as a primary consideration, and respect the human rights of migrant children, including adolescents,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2014, para. 17

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Acknowledging the complexity of migratory flows and that international migration movements also occur within the same geographical regions, and in this context calling for a better understanding of migration patterns across and within regions,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2014, para. 7

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Recalling also the provisions concerning migrants contained in the outcome documents of major United Nations conferences and summits, including the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Trafficking in women and girls 2012, para. 19

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Recognizing further the importance of exploring the link between migration and trafficking in persons in order to further efforts to protect women migrant workers from violence, discrimination, exploitation and abuse,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women migrant workers 2009, para. 9

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Recognizing that women migrant workers are important contributors to social and economic development, and underlining the value and dignity of their labour, including the labour of domestic workers,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2006, para. 6

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Welcoming the establishment of the Human Rights Council, which is responsible for promoting universal respect for the protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind and in a fair and equal manner,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2005, para. 14

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Deeply concerned at the manifestations of violence, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance and inhuman and degrading treatment against migrants, especially women and children, in different parts of the world,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons 2005, para. 2

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Welcomes also the report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, and takes note of his conclusions and recommendations;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons 2005, para. 1

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Welcomes the appointment of the new Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Violence against women migrant workers 2005, para. 8

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Noting the tendency of many migrant women to be employed in the informal economy and in less skilled work compared with that of men, which puts those women at greater risk of abuse and exploitation,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2003, para. 3

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Reaffirming also the provisions concerning migrants adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2003
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2002, para. 3

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Reaffirming also the provisions concerning migrants adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2002
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 1998, para. IV.22

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Condemns the abduction of children in situations of armed conflict, and urges States, international organizations and other concerned parties to take all appropriate measures to secure the unconditional release of all abducted children;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
1998
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 7

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Recommends that the issue of violence against women migrant workers be included in the agenda of the inter-agency meeting that precedes the regular session of the Commission on the Status of Women;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
1995
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women migrant workers 1994, para. 2

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Reaffirming the principles set forth in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 34/180 of 18 December 1979,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
1994
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Internally displaced persons 1993, para. 9

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Taking note of the comprehensive study of the representative of the Secretary-General, submitted to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-ninth session, and the useful suggestions and recommendations contained therein,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
1993
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. undefined

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Where a rationing system exists, which applies to the population at large and regulates the general distribution of products in short supply, refugees shall be accorded the same treatment as nationals.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
International treaty
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
1951
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. 1

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1. Except where this Convention contains more favourable provisions, a Contracting State shall accord to refugees the same treatment as is accorded to aliens generally.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
International treaty
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
1951
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. undefined

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The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all Members of the United Nations and non-member States referred to in article 39: (a) Of declarations and notifications in accordance with section B of article 1; (b) Of signatures, ratifications and accessions in accordance with article 39; (c) Of declarations and notifications in accordance with article 40; (d) Of reservations and withdrawals in accordance with article 42; (e) Of the date on which this Convention will come into force in accordance with article 43; (f) Of denunciations and notifications in accordance with article 44; (g) Of requests for revision in accordance with article 45. In faith whereof the undersigned, duly authorized, have signed this Convention on behalf of their respective Governments. Done at Geneva, this twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, in a single copy, of which the English and French texts are equally authentic and which shall remain deposited in the archives of the United Nations, and certified true copies of which shall be delivered to all Members of the United Nations and to the non-member States referred to in article 39.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
International treaty
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
1951
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons 2017, para. 46

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Decides to continue its consideration of the question of protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons at its seventy-fourth session.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

A world fit for children 2002, para. 47.7

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[To achieve these goals, we will implement the following strategies and actions:] Ensure non-discrimination and full and equal enjoyment of all human rights through the promotion of an active and visible policy of de-stigmatization of children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2002
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

A world fit for children 2002, para. 44.17

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[To achieve these goals, we will implement the following strategies and actions:] Provide protection and assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons, the majority of whom are women and children, in accordance with international law, including international humanitarian law.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2002
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

New York Declaration For Refugees and Migrants 2016, para. 16

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States aim to provide resettlement places and other legal pathways on a scale that would enable the annual resettlement needs identified by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to be met.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Protection of migrants 2008, para. 2

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Also calls upon States to ensure that their laws and policies, including in the areas of counter-terrorism and combating transnational organized crime such as trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants, fully respect the human rights of migrants;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Protection of migrants 2007, para. 2

Paragraph text
Also calls upon States to ensure that their laws and policies, including in the areas of counter-terrorism and combating transnational organized crime such as trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants, fully respect the human rights of migrants;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Violence against women migrant workers 1999, para. 9

Paragraph text
Recognizing the importance of joint and collaborative approaches at the bilateral, regional, interregional and international levels in protecting and promoting the rights and welfare of women migrant workers,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
1999
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

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