A/HRC/RES/55/29
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 April 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 5 April 2024
55/29.
Rights of the child: realizing the rights of the child and inclusive social
protection
The Human Rights Council,
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child constitutes the
international legal foundation for the respect, protection and fulfilment of the rights of the
child, bearing in mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the Convention, and calling
for their universal ratification and effective implementation,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the rights of the child of the General Assembly,
the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, the most recent being
Assembly resolution 78/187 of 19 December 2023 and Council resolution 49/20 of 1 April
2022, and recalling also Council resolution 52/11 of 3 April 2023 focusing on the role of
inclusive social protection for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights,
Recalling also all relevant international human rights treaties, in particular the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families, as well as other treaties, such as the Social Security (Minimum
Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102), the Equality of Treatment (Social Security)
Convention, 1962 (No. 118), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No.
182) of the International Labour Organization,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, with a commitment to
achieving sustainable development in a balanced and integrated manner and to realizing the
human rights of all, and recalling in this regard the importance of inclusive social protection
for the attainment of the Goals, including through the implementation of nationally
appropriate inclusive social protection measures and systems, including floors, for all,
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