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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/209
17 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 101
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/611)]
49/209.
Protection of children affected by armed conflicts
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, by which it
adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and its resolution 3318
(XXIX) of 14 December 1974, by which it proclaimed the Declaration on the
Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict,
Recalling that the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 1/ and the
Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977, 2/ as well as article 38 of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, accord children special protection and
treatment,
Recalling also the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and
Development of Children 3/ and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World
Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in
the 1990s, 3/ adopted by the World Summit for Children in New York in
September 1990, and stressing the necessity of implementing their provisions,
Noting the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the
elaboration of a preliminary draft optional protocol to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child relating to the involvement of children in armed
conflicts, 4/
1/
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
2/
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
3/
See A/45/625, annex.
4/
E/CN.4/1994/91, annex.
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