A/HRC/RES/53/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 July 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-third session
19 June–14 July 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 13 July
2023
53/23.
Child, early and forced marriage: ending and preventing forced
marriage
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other relevant human rights instruments,
including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave
Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,
Reaffirming its resolutions 24/23 of 27 September 2013, 29/8 of 2 July 2015, 35/16 of
22 June 2017, 41/8 of 11 July 2019 and 48/6 of 8 October 2021, and recalling General
Assembly resolutions 69/156 of 18 December 2014, 71/175 of 19 December 2016, 73/153 of
17 December 2018, 75/167 of 16 December 2021 and 77/202 of 15 December 2022,
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, as well as the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and the outcome documents of their review
conferences, and recalling the relevant agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status
of Women,
Recalling the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda, and noting the integrated and
indivisible nature of the 2030 Agenda and the range of goals, targets and indicators relevant
to preventing, responding to and eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including
target 5.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals,
Welcoming the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on the adverse impact of forced marriage on the full and effective enjoyment
GE.23-14322(E)