A/RES/78/187
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 67
Promotion and protection of the rights of children
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/476, para. 19)]
78/187.
Rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the importance of its resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, by
which it adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 which constitutes the
standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child,
Reaffirming also that the rights of the child are human rights, and that these
rights need to be protected and upheld both offline and online,
Reaffirming further that States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
shall undertake all appropriate measures for the implementation of the rights recognized
therein, while bearing in mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the
Convention2 and calling for their universal ratification and effective implementation,
as well as that of other human rights instruments,
Reaffirming that the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, including the best interests of the child, and non-discrimination, participation
and survival and development of the child, provide the framework for actions
concerning children, including in the digital environment,
Reaffirming also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 which proclaims
that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone
is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction of any
kind, and recalling that 2023 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of its adoption,
Reaffirming further resolution 70/1, adopted by the General Assembly on
25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development”, while taking note of the interconnectedness of the
Sustainable Development Goals set in the 2030 Agenda and the rights proclaimed in
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171, 2173 and 2983, No. 27531.
Resolution 217 A (III).
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