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Report/Press release

Promotion and protection of human rights, including ways and means to promote the human rights of migrants

Date

2013

Authors

Secretary-General of the U.N.

Abstract

The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution
67/172 on the protection of migrants. In that resolution, the Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixty-eighth session a report on the
implementation of the resolution, including an analysis of how a human rights
perspective could enhance the design and implementation of international migration
and development policies.
Written submissions were received from States, intergovernmental
organizations and non-governmental organizations.
The report considers the components of a human rights-based approach to
migrants and migration, including from the perspective of the post-2015
development agenda, contains an analysis of how a human rights perspective can
enhance the design and implementation of international migration and development
policies and provides examples of recent practice in integrating a human rights
perspective in the design and implementation of migration and development policies.

Document number

A/68/292

Number of pages

22

Responsible institution

United Nation

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Target groups

Public awareness

Geographical focuses

Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia, Other provinces, Federal, International Organizations, Nova Scotia, Global relevance, and National relevance

Languages

English