A/RES/67/152
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 April 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 65 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/453)]
67/152. 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 66/141 of 19 December 2011,
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 and effective implementation, as well as that of other human
rights instruments,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 3 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,3 the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 4 the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 5 the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families, 6 the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime 7 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime, 8
Recalling also the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples of 2007, 9 as well as resolution 65/198 of 21 December 2010 on indigenous
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
5
Resolution 61/177, annex.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481.
7
Ibid., vol. 2225, No. 39574.
8
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
9
Resolution 61/295, annex.
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