Protection of Migrants

A/RES/61/165View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 67b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2007.

What other versions does this mandate have?

22 versions · 2000–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/218

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/218	Protection of migrants	5,961	69%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/217	Protection of migrants	6,518	67%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/172	Protection of migrants	5,336	78%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/148	Protection of migrants	4,723	87%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/179	Protection of migrants	4,492	90%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

15 reports · 2004–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/HRC/61/31	Human rights of migrants report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/217
2023	A/HRC/54/81	Human rights of migrants report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/172
2020	A/HRC/45/30	Human rights of migrants report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/148
2019	A/74/271	Human rights of migrants report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/179
2016	A/71/284	Promotion and protection of human rights, including ways and means to promote the human rights of migrants report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/147

What subjects does this mandate have?

16 subjects

Child Migrants Family Reunification Human Rights Human Rights Violations Immigration Policy International Migration International Obligations Labour Law Migrant Workers Migrant Workers' Families Migrants Racial Discrimination Remittances Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Women Migrants Xenophobia

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Requests States effectively to promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their immigration status, especially those of women and children;

Takes note with interest of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the human rights of migrants;¹⁰

¹⁰See A/61/324.

Calls upon States that have not done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families8 as a matter of priority, and requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to raise awareness and promote the Convention;

Urges States parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime¹¹ and supplementing protocols thereto, namely, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air¹² and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,¹³ to implement them fully, and calls upon States that have not done so to consider ratifying them as a matter of priority;

¹¹Resolution 55/25, annex I.

¹²Ibid., annex III.

¹³Ibid., annex II.

Takes note of the report of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on its third and fourth sessions;¹⁴

¹⁴Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 48 (A/61/48).

Requests all States, international organizations and relevant stakeholders to take into account in their policies and initiatives on migration issues the global character of the migratory phenomenon and to give due consideration to international, regional and bilateral cooperation in this field, including by undertaking dialogues on migration that include countries of origin, destination and transit, as well as civil society, including migrants, with a view to addressing, in a comprehensive manner, inter alia, its causes and consequences and the challenge of undocumented or irregular migration, granting priority to the protection of the human rights of migrants;

Expresses concern about legislation and measures adopted by some States that may restrict the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, and reaffirms that, when exercising their sovereign right to enact and implement migratory and border security measures, States have the duty to comply with their obligations under international law, including international human rights law, in order to ensure full respect for the human rights of migrants;

Requests States to adopt concrete measures to prevent the violation of the human rights of migrants while in transit, including in ports and airports and at borders and migration checkpoints, to train public officials who work in those facilities and in border areas to treat migrants respectfully and in accordance with the law, and to prosecute, in conformity with applicable law, any act of violation of the human rights of migrants, inter alia, arbitrary detention, torture and violations of the right to life, including extrajudicial executions, during their transit from their country of origin to the country of destination and vice versa, including their transit through national borders;

Calls upon States to address international migration through international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and through a comprehensive and balanced approach, recognizing the roles and responsibilities of countries of origin, transit and destination in promoting and protecting the human rights of migrants and avoiding approaches that may aggravate their vulnerability;

Strongly condemns the manifestations and acts of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance against migrants and the stereotypes often applied to them, including on the basis of religion or belief, and urges States to apply the existing laws when xenophobic or intolerant acts, manifestations or expressions against migrants occur, in order to eradicate impunity for those who commit xenophobic and racist acts;

Requests all States, in conformity with national legislation and applicable international legal instruments to which they are party, to enforce labour law effectively, including by addressing violations of such law, with regard to migrant workers’ labour relations and working conditions, inter alia, those related to their remuneration and conditions of health, safety at work and the right to freedom of association;

Encourages all States to remove obstacles that may prevent the safe, unrestricted and expeditious transfer of remittances of migrants to their country of origin or to any other countries, in conformity with applicable legislation, and to consider, as appropriate, measures to solve other problems that may impede such transfers;

Welcomes immigration programmes, adopted by some countries, that allow migrants to integrate fully into the host countries, facilitate family reunification and promote a harmonious, tolerant and respectful environment, and encourages States to consider the possibility of adopting these types of programmes;

Requests Member States, the United Nations system, international organizations, civil society and all relevant stakeholders, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, to ensure that the perspective of the human rights of migrants is included among the priority issues in the ongoing discussions on international migration and development within the United Nations system, bearing in mind the discussions of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development held pursuant to General Assembly resolution 58/208 of 23 December 2003;

Requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the present resolution at its sixty-second session and decides to examine the question further under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”.

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