A/RES/79/158 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 19 December 2024 Seventy-ninth session Agenda item 67 (a) Promotion and protection of the rights of children: promotion and protection of the rights of children Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2024 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/79/454, para. 16)] 79/158. Child, early and forced marriage The General Assembly, Reaffirming its resolutions 69/156 of 18 December 2014, 71/175 of 19 December 2016, 73/153 of 17 December 2018, 75/167 of 16 December 2020 and 77/202 of 15 December 2022 on child, early and forced marriage, Recalling its resolutions 78/188 of 19 December 2023 on the girl child and 78/187 of 19 December 2023 on the rights of the child, and 77/193 of 15 December 2022 on the intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 53/23 of 13 July 2023, entitled “Child, early and forced marriage: ending and preventing forced marriage”, 1 and all other previous resolutions relating to child, early and forced marriage, while recognizing that 2024 marks 10 years since the adoption of resolution 69/156, in which the General Assembly first addressed the pressing issue of child, early and forced marriage, Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 4 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 6 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 7 __________________ See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/78/53), chap. VII, sect. A. 2 Resolution 217 A (III). 3 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 4 Ibid. 5 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531. 6 Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378. 7 Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910. 1 24-24151 (E) *2424151*