A/HRC/RES/13/20
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 April 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirteenth session
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*
13/20
Rights of the child: the fight against sexual violence against
children
The Human Rights Council,
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child must constitute the
standards in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child and stressing the
importance of the Optional Protocols thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict, in particular in the
fight against sexual violence against children, and bearing in mind other human rights
instruments,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the rights of the child of the General Assembly,
the Human Rights Council and the Commission on Human Rights, the most recent being
Assembly resolution 64/146 of 18 December 2009 and Council resolution 10/14 of 26
March 2009,
Welcoming the decision of the Security Council to appoint the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict by its resolution
1888 (2009) of 30 September 2009 and welcoming also its decision to expand the criteria
by which parties are included in the annexes to the Secretary-General’s annual reports on
children and armed conflict to include parties to armed conflict that engage in contravention
of applicable international law, in patterns of killing and maiming of children, and/or rape
or other forms of sexual violence against children in situations of armed conflict, in its
resolution 1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009,
*
GE.10-12977
The resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the
Council on its thirteenth session (A/HRC/13/56), chap. I.