A/RES/66/172. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2011

• Resolution Number: A/RES/66/172
• Year: 2012
• Date: 29 March 2012
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation
• Session: 66e

United Nations A/RES/66/172

General Assembly Distr.: General

29 March 2012

Sixty-sixth session

Agenda item 69 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2011

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/66/462/Add.2)]

66/172. Protection of migrants

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

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

recent of which is resolution 65/212 of 21 December 2010, and recalling also

Human Rights Council resolution 18/21 of 30 September 2011,

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

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum

(A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.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 Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.

9 Ibid., vol. 596, No. 8638.