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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/136
4 March 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)]
48/136.
Plight of street children
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 47/126 of 18 December 1992,
Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/81 of 10 March
1993, 1/
Welcoming the special attention given to the rights of children by the
World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, and
welcoming in particular section I, paragraph 21, of the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, 2/
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child 3/ as a major
contribution to the protection of the rights of all children, including street
children,
Reaffirming that children are a particularly vulnerable section of
society whose rights require special protection and that children living under
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1/
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993,
Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap. II, sect. A.
2/
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3/
Resolution 44/25, annex.
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