United Nations
A/RES/61/146
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 63
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/439 and Corr.1)]
61/146. Rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the rights of the child, the most recent of
which is resolution 60/231 of 23 December 2005, and its resolution 60/141 of
16 December 2005, as well as Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/44 of
19 April 2005, 1
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 must constitute
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, 3 as well as
other human rights instruments,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 4 the United
Nations Millennium Declaration 5 and the outcome document of the twenty-seventh
special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for
children”, 6 and recalling the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and
the Programme of Action, 7 the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World
Education Forum, 8 the Declaration on Social Progress and Development, 9 the
Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition 10 and the
Declaration on the Right to Development, 11
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2005/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531; and ibid., vol. 2173, No. 27531.
4
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
5
See resolution 55/2.
6
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
7
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
8
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World
Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000).
9
See resolution 2542 (XXIV).
10
Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16 November 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.75.II.A.3), chap. I.
11
Resolution 41/128, annex.
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