A/RES/68/147*
United Nations
Distr.: General
7 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 65 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/452 and Corr.1)]
68/147. Rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming all its previous resolutions on the rights of the child in their
entirety, the most recent of which is resolution 67/152 of 20 December 2012,
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 constitutes the
standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, reaffirming that
States parties to the Convention shall undertake all appropriate legislative,
administrative and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognized
therein, while bearing in mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the
Convention, 2 and calling for their universal ratification and effective
implementation, as well as that of other human rights instruments,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 3 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 4 the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 5 the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families, 6 the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime 7 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention
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* Reissued for technical reasons on 31 March 2014.
1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
2
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
5
Resolution 61/177, annex.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481.
7
Ibid., vol. 2225, No. 39574.
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