A/RES/59/194
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 105 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/503/Add.2)]
59/194. Protection of migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/190 of 22 December 2003 and Commission on
Human Rights resolution 2004/53 of 20 April 2004, 1
Recalling also its resolution 40/144 of 13 December 1985, by which it adopted
the Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the
Country in which They Live,
Reaffirming that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2 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,
Considering that every State party to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights 3 must ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its
jurisdiction the rights recognized in the Covenant,
Bearing in mind that every State party to the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights3 has undertaken to guarantee the exercise of
all rights enunciated in that Covenant without discrimination of any kind, including,
in particular, on the basis of national origin,
Reaffirming the provisions concerning migrants adopted by the World
Conference on Human Rights, 4 the International Conference on Population and
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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