A/RES/74/133
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 66 (a)
Promotion and protection of the rights of children:
promotion and protection of the rights of children
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/395)]
74/133.
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, and welcoming the
celebration of the thirtieth anniversary in 2019 of its adoption,
Reaffirming also that States parties to the Convention shall undertake all
appropriate measures for the implementation of the rights recognized therein, while
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 all of its previous resolutions on the rights of the child, the most recent
of which was resolution 73/155 of 17 December 2018, and recalling also all other
relevant resolutions on this matter, including resolution 73/154 of 17 December 2018
on protecting children from bullying and resolution 73/327 of 25 July 2019, by which
it declared 2021 the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour,
Reaffirming 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,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 4 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the Convention on
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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