A/RES/55/79
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 110
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/598)]
55/79. The rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/148 and 54/149 of 17 December 1999, and taking
note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/85 of 27 April 2000, 1
Bearing in mind the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 emphasizing that
the provisions of the Convention and other relevant human rights instruments must
constitute the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and
reaffirming that the best interest of the child shall be the primary consideration in all
actions concerning children,
Reaffirming 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, 3 and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted
by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June
1993, 4 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
infanticide, harmful child labour, sale of children and organs, child prostitution and
child pornography, and which reaffirms that all human rights and fundamental
freedoms are universal,
Recalling its resolution 54/93 of 7 December 1999, by which it decided to
convene a special session in September 2001 to follow up the World Summit for
Children, and stressing the importance of addressing the rights and needs of the
child in the preparatory process of the special session and the special session itself,
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2000/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
2
Resolution 44/25, annex.
3
A/45/625, annex.
4
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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