A/RES/73/155
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 70 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/585)]
73/155.
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 legislat ive,
administrative and other 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 72/245 of 24 December 2017, and recalling also all other
relevant resolutions, including resolution 71/176 of 19 December 2016 on protecting
children from bullying,
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,
and noting that the year 2018 marks its seventieth anniversary,
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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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.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
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