A/RES/73/327
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
31 July 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 25 July 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.101 and A/73/L.101/Add.1)]
73/327.
International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, 2021
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly
for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that
eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is
the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three
dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated
manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development
Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 constitutes the
standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and, bearing in
mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the Convention, 2 calling for their
universal ratification and effective implementation, as well as that of other human
rights instruments,
Recalling the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) 3 and the Worst Forms
of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour
Organization, 4
Reaffirming its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international yea rs, and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, No. 14862.
Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245.
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