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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/107
13 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 108
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/640)]
52/107. The rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 51/76 and 51/77 of 12 December 1996, 51/186 of 16 December 1996 and
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/78 of 18 April 1997,1
Also recalling the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and
the Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development
of Children in the 1990s adopted by the World Summit for Children, held in New York on 29 and 30
September 1990,2 notably the solemn commitment to give high priority to the rights of children, to their
survival and to their protection and development, and reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993,3
which, inter alia, states that national and international mechanisms and programmes for the defence and
protection of children, in particular those in especially difficult circumstances, should be strengthened,
including through effective measures to combat exploitation and abuse of children, such as female
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 3 (E/1997/23),
chap II, sect. A.
2
A/45/625, annex.
3
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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