A/RES/65/197
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 March 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 64 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/452)]
65/197. Rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming all its previous resolutions on the rights of the child in their
entirety, the most recent of which is resolution 64/146 of 18 December 2009,
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, as well as that of other human rights instruments,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3 the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance 4 and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 5
Reaffirming that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the
child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the
framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents,
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 6 the United
Nations Millennium Declaration 7 and the outcome document of the twenty-seventh
special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for
children”, 8 and recalling the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action, 9 the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531.
3
Resolution 61/106, annex I.
4
Resolution 61/177, annex.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481.
6
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
7
See resolution 55/2.
8
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
9
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
2
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