A/RES/61/146
Recognizing the importance of the integration of child rights issues into the
follow-up of the outcome documents of all major United Nations conferences,
special sessions and summits,
Taking note with appreciation of the reports of the Secretary-General on
progress made towards achieving the commitments set out in the outcome document
of the twenty-seventh special session of the General Assembly 12 and on the status of
the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the issues raised in Assembly
resolution 60/231, 13 as well as the report of the Chairman of the Committee on the
Rights of the Child, 14
Reaffirming that the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration
in all actions concerning children,
Recognizing the importance of incorporating a child-protection perspective
across the human rights agenda, as highlighted in the outcome of the 2005 World
Summit,
Taking note with appreciation of the attention paid to children in the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 15 and in the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 16
Profoundly concerned that the situation of children in many parts of the world
remains critical, in an increasingly globalized environment, as a result of the
persistence of poverty, social inequality, inadequate social and economic conditions,
pandemics, in particular HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, environmental
damage, natural disasters, armed conflict, foreign occupation, displacement,
violence, terrorism, abuse, exploitation, trafficking in children and their organs,
child prostitution, child pornography and child sex tourism, neglect, illiteracy,
hunger, intolerance, discrimination, racism, xenophobia, gender inequality,
disability and inadequate legal protection, and convinced that urgent and effective
national and international action is called for,
Reaffirming the need for mainstreaming a gender perspective in all policies
and programmes relating to children, and recognizing the child as a rights holder in
all policies and programmes relating to children,
I
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
and the Optional Protocols thereto
1.
Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the
child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the
framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents;
Urges States that have not yet done so to become parties to the
2.
Convention on the Rights of the Child2 and the Optional Protocols thereto3 as a
matter of priority and to implement them fully by, inter alia, putting in place
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12
A/61/270.
A/61/207.
14
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Third Committee, 15th meeting
(A/C.3/61/SR.15), and corrigendum.
15
Resolution 61/106, annex I.
16
Resolution 61/177, annex.
13
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