A/RES/78/217
Protection of migrants
migration status, are human rights holders, and reaffirming the need to protect their
safety and dignity and to respect, protect and fulfil their human rights and
fundamental freedoms, without any kind of discrimination, while promoting the
security, well-being and prosperity of all communities,
Recalling all relevant international instruments, particularly the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 7 and the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 8 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 9 the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 10 the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 11 the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 12 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, 13 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 14
the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 15 the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 16 and
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the
Protocols thereto, 17 in particular the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by
Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime, 18 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 19 and in particular the
relevant contributions of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families to the protection of migrants,
Recalling also the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration,
adopted at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe,
Orderly and Regular Migration, held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 10 and 11 December
2018, and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 73/195 of 19 December
2018,
Recalling further that the Global Compact is based on a set of cross-cutting and
interdependent guiding principles: people-centred, international cooperation, national
sovereignty, rule of law and due process, sustainable development, human rights,
gender-responsive, child-sensitive, whole-of-government approach and whole-ofsociety approach,
Recalling the Progress Declaration of the International Migration Review
Forum, endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 76/266 of 7 June 2022,
Acknowledging the sovereign right of States to determine their national
migration policy and their prerogative to govern migration within their jurisdiction,
in conformity with international law, in particular their obligations under international
human rights law and international refugee law,
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Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841.
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 596, No. 8638.
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
Ibid., vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
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