United Nations
A/RES/60/141
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 67
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/505)]
60/141. The girl child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/156 of 22 December 2003 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, inter alia, in the
Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations, the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1 and the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, 2
Recalling all human rights and other instruments relevant to the rights of the
child, in particular the girl child, including the Optional Protocols to the Convention
on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict 3 and on
the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 4 and the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 5
Reaffirming the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted on
8 September 2000, 6 and the commitments relevant to the girl child as contained in
the 2005 World Summit Outcome adopted on 16 September 2005, 7
Reaffirming also the outcome document of the twenty-seventh special session
of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, 8 and the
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted at the twenty-sixth special
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
Ibid., vol. 2173, No. 27531.
4
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531
5
Resolution 55/25, annex II.
6
See resolution 55/2.
7
See resolution 60/1.
8
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
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