A/RES/64/145
United Nations
Distr.: General
1 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 65 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/435 and Corr.1)]
64/145. The girl child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 62/140 of 18 December 2007 and all relevant
resolutions, including the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of
Women, in particular those relevant to the girl child,
Reaffirming the equal rights of women and men as enshrined in the Charter of
the United Nations,
Recalling all human rights and other instruments relevant to the rights of the
child, in particular the girl child, including the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, 1 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 2 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 3 and the
Optional Protocols thereto, 4
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1F
2F
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Welcoming the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities and the specific attention paid therein to the fact that women and
girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination, including in education
and schooling,
Reaffirming the internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals, as well as the commitments relevant to the girl
child made at the 2005 World Summit, 5
4F
Recalling the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage
and Registration of Marriages, 6
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
3
Resolution 61/106, annex I.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and
resolution 61/106, annex II.
5
See resolution 60/1.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 521, No. 7525.
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