A/RES/57/190
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 105
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/552)]
57/190. Rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming all of its resolutions on the rights of the child, in particular
resolutions 55/78 and 55/79 of 4 December 2000, recalling resolution 56/138 of
19 December 2001, and taking note with appreciation of Commission on Human
Rights resolution 2002/92 of 26 April 2002, 1
Bearing in mind the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 emphasizing that
the provisions of the Convention and other relevant human rights instruments must
constitute the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and
reaffirming that the best interest of the child shall be the primary consideration in all
actions concerning children,
Welcoming the entry into force 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
Reaffirming the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and
Development of Children and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World
Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s
adopted by the World Summit for Children, held in New York on 29 and
30 September 1990, 4 and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted
by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June
1993, 5 which, inter alia, states that national and international mechanisms and
programmes for the defence and protection of children, in particular those in
especially difficult circumstances, should be strengthened, including through
effective measures to combat the exploitation and abuse of children, female
infanticide, harmful child labour, the sale of children and organs, child prostitution
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2002/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 44/25, annex.
3
Resolution 54/263, annexes I and II.
4
A/45/625, annex.
5
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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