A/RES/63/184. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2008

• Resolution Number: A/RES/63/184
• Year: 2009
• Date: 17 March 2009
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation
• Session: 63e

United Nations A/RES/63/184

General Assembly Distr.: General

17 March 2009

Sixty-third session

Agenda item 64 (b)

08-48183

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.2)]

63/184. Protection of migrants

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

all its previous resolutions on the protection of migrants, the most

recent of which is resolution 62/156 of 18 December 2007, and recalling also

Human Rights Council resolution 9/5 of 24 September 2008,

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Reaffirming

, in the year of its sixtieth anniversary, the Universal Declaration

of Human Rights,

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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

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3

and the

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

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the Convention

against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,

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the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,

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the Convention on the Rights of the Child,

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the International Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

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the Vienna Convention on

Consular Relations

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and the International Convention on the Protection of the

Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1),

chap. I.

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. 596, No. 8638.

9 Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.