United Nations
A/RES/71/175
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 64 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/480)]
71/175. Child, early and forced marriage
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/156 of 18 December 2014 on child, early and
forced marriage,
Recalling its resolutions 70/138 of 17 December 2015 on the girl child and
69/147 of 18 December 2014 on the intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 29/8 of
2 July 2015, entitled “Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and
forced marriage”, 1 and all other previous resolutions relating to child, early and forced
marriage,
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3 and the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 3 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 4 and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5
together with the relevant Optional Protocols thereto, 6 as well as other relevant human
rights instruments,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 7 as well as the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, 8 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 9 and the outcome
documents of their review conferences,
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. V,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
5
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
6
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531, and resolution 66/138, annex; and United Nations, Treaty Series,
vol. 2131, No. 20378.
7
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
8
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
9
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
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