A/RES/73/153 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 8 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 70 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2018 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/585)] 73/153. Child, early and forced marriage The General Assembly, Reaffirming its resolutions 69/156 of 18 December 2014 and 71/175 of 19 December 2016 on child, early and forced marriage, Recalling its resolutions 72/154 of 19 December 2017 on the girl child and 71/170 of 19 December 2016, entitled “Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence ”, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 35/16 of 22 June 2017 on child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings 1 and all other previous resolutions relating to child, early and forced marriage, Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 which marks its seventieth anniversary in 2018, as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 3 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 4 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5 together with the relevant Optional Protocols thereto, 6 as well as other relevant human rights instruments, and recalling the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages, 7 __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 18-22209 (E) See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A. Resolution 217 A (III). See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531. Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378. Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531, and resolution 66/138, annex; and United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2131, No. 20378. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 521, No. 7525. 110119 *1822209*