A/RES/66/140*
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 March 2012
Sixty-sixth session
Agenda item 65 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2011
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/66/458)]
66/140. The girl child
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 64/145 of 18 December 2009 and all relevant
resolutions, including the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of
Women, in particular those relevant to the girl child,
Reaffirming also the equal rights of women and men as enshrined in the
Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling all human rights and other instruments relevant to the rights of the
child, in particular the girl child, including the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, 1 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 2 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3 the Optional
Protocols thereto 4 and the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for
Marriage and Registration of Marriages, 5
Reaffirming the internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals, as well as the commitments relevant to the girl
child made at the 2005 World Summit, 6 and welcoming the outcome document of
the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium
Development Goals, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals”, 7
Reaffirming also the outcome document of the twenty-seventh special session
of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, 8 the
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* Reissued for technical reasons on 5 April 2012.
1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
2
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
3
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
4
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and ibid., vol. 2518, No. 44910.
5
Ibid., vol. 521, No. 7525.
6
See resolution 60/1.
7
See resolution 65/1.
8
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
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