A/RES/62/140
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 February 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 66 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/435)]
62/140. The girl child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 60/141 of 16 December 2005 and all relevant
resolutions, including the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of
Women, in particular those relevant to the girl child,
Reaffirming the equal rights of women and men as enshrined in the Charter of
the United Nations,
Recalling all human rights and other instruments relevant to the rights of the
child, in particular the girl child, including the Convention on the Rights of the
Child 1 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women 2 and the Optional Protocols thereto, 3
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Welcoming the opening for signature of the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, 4 particularly as it explicitly recognizes the specific
situation of girls with disabilities,
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Reaffirming the internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals, as well as the commitments relevant to the girl
child made at the 2005 World Summit, 5
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Reaffirming also the outcome document of the twenty-seventh special session
of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, 6 the
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted at the twenty-sixth special
session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, entitled “Global Crisis – Global
Action”, 7 and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS of 2006, 8
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
3
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378.
4
Resolution 61/106, annex I.
5
See resolution 60/1.
6
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
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Resolution S-26/2, annex.
8
Resolution 60/262, annex.
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07-47217
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