A/HRC/RES/41/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 July 2019
41/8.
Consequences of child, early and forced marriage
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other relevant human rights instruments,
including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Supplementary Convention on the
Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,
Reaffirming its resolutions 24/23 of 27 September 2013, 29/8 of 2 July 2015 and 35/16
of 22 June 2017, and recalling General Assembly resolutions 69/156 of 18 December 2014,
71/175 of 19 December 2016 and 73/153 of 17 December 2018,
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, as well as the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and the outcome documents of their review
conferences,
Recalling the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda, and noting the integrated and
indivisible nature of the 2030 Agenda and the range of goals, targets and indicators relevant
to preventing, responding to and eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including
target 5.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals,
Welcoming the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings1 and the report of
the Secretary-General on child, early and forced marriage,2
Welcoming also the United Nations Population Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund
Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage, and other ongoing United
Nations activities and programmes on child, early and forced marriage, noting regional,
national and subnational instruments, mechanisms and initiatives to end child, early and
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A/HRC/41/19.
A/73/257.
GE.19-12291(E)