A/RES/75/167
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 68 (a)
Promotion and protection of the rights of children:
promotion and protection of the rights of children
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/474, para. 33)]
75/167.
Child, early and forced marriage
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 69/156 of 18 December 2014, 71/175 of
19 December 2016 and 73/153 of 17 December 2018 on child, early and forced
marriage,
Recalling its resolutions 74/134 of 18 December 2019 on the girl child and
73/148 of 17 December 2018, entitled “Intensification of efforts to prevent and
eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: sexual harassment”, as well
as Human Rights Council resolution 41/8 of 11 July 2019 on the consequences of
child, early and forced marriage 1 and all other previous resolutions relating to child,
early and forced marriage,
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 as well as the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3 and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 4 the Convention on the Rights
of the Child 5 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, 6 together with the relevant Optional Protocols thereto, 7 as well as
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20-17337 (E)
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/74/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531, and resolution 66/138, annex; and United Nations, Treaty
Series, vol. 2131, No. 20378.
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