A/RES/77/233
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2023
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 109
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2022
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/77/464, para. 31)]
77/233.
Strengthening national and international efforts, including with
the private sector, to protect children from sexual exploitation
and abuse
The General Assembly,
Stressing that the rights of the child are human rights, and that these rights need
to be protected both offline and online,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 the Optional Protocol to
the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography 2 and other relevant international and regional instruments,
Recalling also its resolution 76/181 of 16 December 2021, in which it endorsed
the Kyoto Declaration on Advancing Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice and the Rule
of Law: Towards the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
adopted by the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, held in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 12 March 2021, and in particular
paragraph 29 of the Declaration and its call to address the needs and protect the rights
of children and youth, with due consideration to their vulnerabilities, to ensure their
protection from all forms of crime, violence, abuse and exploitation both online and
offline, such as sexual abuse and exploitation of children and trafficking in pers ons,
noting the particular vulnerabilities of children in the context of smuggling of
migrants, as well as recruitment by organized criminal groups including gangs, as
well as by terrorist groups, and paragraph 86 of the Declaration and its call to take
more effective measures to prevent and end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all
forms of violence against and torture of children, including child sexual exploitation
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531.
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