United Nations
A/RES/71/177
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 64 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/480)]
71/177. Rights of the child
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the importance of its resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, by
which it adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 which constitutes the
standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, reaffirming also
that States parties to the Convention shall undertake all appropriate legislative,
administrative and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognized
therein, while bearing in mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the
Convention2 and calling for their universal ratification and effective implementation,
as well as that of other human rights instruments,
Reaffirming also all of its previous resolutions on the rights of the child, the
most recent of which was resolution 70/137 of 17 December 2015, and all other
relevant resolutions, including 69/158 of 18 December 2014 on protecting children
from bullying and 69/187 of 18 December 2014 on migrant children and
adolescents,
Reaffirming further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 which
proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and
that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without
distinction of any kind, including that everyone has the right to freedom of
movement and residence within the borders of each State and the right to leave any
country, including his or her own, and to return to his or her country,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 4 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 5 the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 6 the 1951 Convention
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
6
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
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