A/RES/69/157. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/157
• Year: 2014
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/157

General Assembly Distr.: General

3 February 2015

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 64

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/484)]

69/157. Rights of the child

The General Assembly

,

Reaffirming

all its previous resolutions on the rights of the child in their

entirety, the most recent of which is resolution 68/147 of 18 December 2013, and in

particular recognizing the importance of resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, in

which it adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child,

1

and welcoming the

celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its adoption in 2014,

Emphasizing

that the Convention on the Rights of the Child constitutes the

standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and bearing in

mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the Convention,

2

and calling for

their universal ratification and effective implementation, as well as that of other

human rights instruments,

Recalling

the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

3

the

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

3

the Convention

on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

4

the International Convention for the

Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,

5

the International

Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of

Their Families,

6

the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized

Crime

7

and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,

Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention

against Transnational Organized Crime,

8

and the Convention on the Elimination of

all Forms of Discrimination against Women,

9

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1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.

2 Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.

3 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.

5 Resolution 61/177, annex.

6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481.

7 Ibid., vol. 2225, No. 39574.

8 Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.

9 Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.