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12.
Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda
item at its thirty-ninth session.
39th meeting
28 September 2017
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 32 to 15, with no abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana, Brazil, Burundi,
China, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia,
Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nigeria,
Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,
Togo, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Against:
Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Latvia,
Netherlands, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Switzerland, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America]
36/5.
Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human
rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 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, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
property, birth or other status,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights
of the Child and the Optional Protocol thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land,
Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations, the International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention against
Discrimination in Education, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the
Protocol thereto, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the
International Labour Organization,
Recalling also all previous resolutions of the General Assembly on the protection of
the human rights of migrants, in particular those relating to the situation of unaccompanied
migrant children and adolescents, such as resolutions 69/187 of 18 December 2014 and
71/177 of 19 December 2016, the Human Rights Council resolutions on the protection of
the human rights of migrants, in particular resolutions 9/5 of 16 September 2008, 12/6 of 12
October 2009, 29/12 of 2 July 2015, 33/7 of 29 September 2016 and 35/17 of 22 June 2017,
Commission on Population and Development resolution 2013/1 of 26 April 2013, entitled
“New trends in migrations: demographic aspects”, and the Declaration of the High-level
Dialogue on International Migration and Development, adopted on 3 October 2013,
Reaffirming the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the annexes
thereto, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 71/1 of 19 September 2016,
Reaffirming also the commitments expressed in the New York Declaration, in which
Member States recognized — and expressed their willingness to address, in accordance
GE.17-18194
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