United Nations
A/RES/58/282
Distr.: General
19 April 2004
General Assembly
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 41
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 February 2004
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.58)]
58/282. Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Declaration and the Plan of Action contained in the final
document of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A
world fit for children”, 1 and recognizing that their implementation is a major
contribution to protecting the rights and promoting the well-being of children,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 the most universally
embraced human rights treaty in history, and the Optional Protocols thereto, 3
Recalling also its resolutions on the special session on children, including
resolution 57/190 of 18 December 2002, in which, inter alia, it decided to include in
the agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Follow-up to the outcome of
the special session on children”, and allocated its consideration to the plenary,
Recalling further its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields,
Bearing in mind that, by 2007, several of the time-bound and quantified
commitments set out in the Declaration and the Plan of Action should have been
met, and that other targets are to be met by 2010 and 2015,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General; 4
2.
Takes note of the initial progress made in the implementation of
Declaration and the Plan of Action1 by Governments, as well as
intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, and
support provided to them by relevant United Nations agencies, funds
programmes;
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by
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and
Calls upon Member States that have not yet done so to prepare or
3.
strengthen national action plans and, where appropriate, regional action plans, with
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1
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
Resolution 44/25, annex.
3
Resolution 54/263, annexes I and II.
4
A/58/333.
2
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