United Nations
A/RES/68/148
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2014
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)]
68/148. Child, early and forced marriage
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 66/140 of 19 December 2011 on the girl child and
67/144 of 20 December 2012 on the intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms
of violence against women, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 24/23 of
27 September 2013, entitled “Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child,
early and forced marriage: challenges, achievements, best practices and
implementation gaps”, 1 and all other previous resolutions relevant to child, early
and forced marriage,
Reaffirming its resolution 66/170 of 19 December 2011 on the International
Day of the Girl Child, and noting with appreciation the theme of the first
International Day, “Ending child marriage”,
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3 and the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights,3 as well as other relevant human rights instruments,
including the Convention on the Rights of the Child 4 and the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 6 as well as the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, 7 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 8 and the outcome
documents of their review conferences,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1),
chap. III.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
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