A/RES/65/212. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Year: 2010
• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/212
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/212

General Assembly Distr.: General

1 April 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda item 68 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/456/Add.2 (Part II))]

65/212. Protection of migrants

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

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

recent of which is resolution 64/166 of 18 December 2009, and recalling also

Human Rights Council resolution 15/16 of 30 September 2010,

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 the right to leave any country,

including his or her own, and to return to his or her 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

the Convention on the Rights of

Persons with Disabilities,

8

the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

9

and the

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),

chap. II.

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 Resolution 61/106, annex I.

9 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 596, No. 8638.