A/RES/77/202 Child, early and forced marriage rights instruments, and recalling the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages, 9 Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 10 as well as the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 11 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 12 and the outcome documents of their review conferences, Taking note of the relevant agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, Reaffirming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 13 noting the integrated nature of the 2030 Agenda and the range of Goals and targets relevant to eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including target 5.3, and its pledge to leave no one behind, and recommitting to endeavouring to reach the furthest behind first and to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, as well as their attainment and full enjoyment of all human rights, which are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, Taking note with appreciation of the ongoing United Nations Population Fund and United Nations Children’s Fund Global Programme to End Child Marriage, as well as international, regional, national and subnational instruments, mechanisms and initiatives to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, including the African Union Campaign to End Child Marriage, the Regional Action Plan to End Child Marriage in South Asia, the Joint Inter-Agency Programme to End Child Marriage and Early Unions in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Southern African Development Community Model Law on Eradicating Child Marriage and Protecting Children Already in Marriage, and further encouraging coordinated and comprehensive approaches to action at all levels and across sectors, Recognizing that child, early and forced marriage is a harmful practice that violates, abuses or impairs human rights and is linked to and perpetuates other harmful practices and human rights violations and that such violations have a disproportionately negative impact on women and girls, particularly those living in vulnerable situations and hard-to-reach areas, putting them, inter alia, at heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence, threatening girls’ education and future economic opportunities as well as their physical and mental health, and underscoring the human rights obligations and commitments of States to respect, promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all women and girls and to prevent and eliminate the practice of child, early and forced marriage, Reaffirming that marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses; Recognizing that social protection, access to quality education in a safe environment, a strong social work system, meaningful participation and inclusion in decision-making, quality health-care services, nutrition, full access to clean water, including safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, including menstrual health and hygiene and affordable menstrual products, skills development and the combating of __________________ 9 10 11 12 13 2/13 Ibid., vol. 521, No. 7525. A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 –13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 –15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. Resolution 70/1. 22-28917