A/RES/77/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 November 2022
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 131
Sexual exploitation and abuse: implementing a
zero-tolerance policy
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 November 2022
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/77/L.8)]
77/8.
World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual
Exploitation, Abuse and Violence
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the Convention on the
Rights of the Child 2 and its Optional Protocols, 3 the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights 5 and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organi zed
Crime, 6 and recalling all other relevant international treaties,
Recalling that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 7 places the dignity
of children and their right to live free from violence as a priority on the international
development agenda through the implementation of the range of goals and targets of
the 2030 Agenda relevant to ending exploitation, abuse, trafficking, torture and all
forms of violence against children, as well as eliminating all harmful practices, such
as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, which place
children at risk of experiencing child sexual exploitation, abuse and violence,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171, 2173 and 2983, No. 27531.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Resolution 70/1.
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