A/RES/59/261
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 February 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 101
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/499)]
59/261. Rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the rights of the child, the most recent of
which is resolution 58/157 of 22 December 2003, as well as Commission on Human
Rights resolution 2004/48 of 20 April 2004, 1
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 must constitute
the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and bearing
in mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography, 3 as well as other relevant human
rights instruments,
Welcoming the entry into force on 25 December 2003 of the Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 4
Reaffirming the outcome documents of the special session of the General
Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, 5 and the commitments
contained therein to promote and protect the rights of each child, every human being
below the age of 18 years, including adolescents, and of all major United Nations
conferences, and the integration of child rights issues into the outcome documents
of all major United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits,
Welcoming the reports of the Secretary-General on the status of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and on progress achieved in realizing the
commitments set out in the document entitled “A world fit for children”, 7
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
Resolution 54/263, annexes I and II.
4
Resolution 55/25, annex II.
5
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
6
A/59/190.
7
A/59/274.
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