A/HRC/RES/35/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 July 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fifth session
6–23 June 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 22 June 2017
35/16.
Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other relevant human rights
instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Supplementary
Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices
Similar to Slavery,
Reaffirming its resolutions 24/23 of 27 September 2013 and 29/8 of 2 July 2015, and
recalling General Assembly resolutions 69/156 of 18 December 2014 and 71/175 of 19
December 2016,
Acknowledging that international humanitarian law and international human rights
law are complimentary and mutually reinforcing,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, as well as the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review
conferences,
Reaffirming also relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions of the Commission on
the Status of Women, and recalling the relevant commitments made by States in the
framework of the World Humanitarian Summit, as well as relevant general comments of
the human rights treaty bodies relating to child, early and forced marriage,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1 and
noting the integrated nature of the 2030 Agenda and the range of goals and targets relevant
to preventing, responding to and eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including
target 5.3,
1
General Assembly resolution 70/1.
GE.17-11708(E)