A/RES/77/202
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 January 2023
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 64 (a)
Promotion and protection of the rights of children:
promotion and protection of the rights of children
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2022
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/77/459, para. 23)]
77/202.
Child, early and forced marriage
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 69/156 of 18 December 2014, 71/175 of
19 December 2016, 73/153 of 17 December 2018 and 75/167 of 16 December 2020
on child, early and forced marriage,
Recalling its resolutions 76/146 of 16 December 2021 on the girl child and
75/161 of 23 December 2020 on the intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate
all forms of violence against women and girls, as well as Human Rights Council
resolution 48/6 of 8 October 2021, entitled “Child, early and forced marriage in times
of crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic”, 1 and all other previous resolutions
relating to child, early and forced marriage,
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 as well as the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3 and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 4 the Convention on the Rights
of the Child, 5 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women 6 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 7
together with the relevant Optional Protocols thereto, 8 as well as other relevant human
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/76/53/Add.1), chap. IV, sect. A.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vols. 2171, 2173 and 2983, No. 27531; ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and ibid., vol. 2518,
No. 44910.
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