A/RES/73/149
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 29
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/582)]
73/149.
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female
genital mutilation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/117 of 9 December 1998, 56/128 of 19 December
2001, 67/146 of 20 December 2012, 68/146 of 18 December 2013, 69/150 of
18 December 2014 and 71/168 of 19 December 2016, Commission on the Status of
Women resolutions 51/2 of 9 March 2007, 1 52/2 of 7 March 2008 2 and 54/7 of
12 March 2010 3 and Human Rights Council resolutions 27/22 of 26 September 2014, 4
32/21 of 1 July 2016 5 and 38/6 of 2 July 2018 6 and all relevant agreed conclusions of
the Commission on the Status of Women,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 7 and noting that 2018
marks its seventieth anniversary,
Reaffirming also that the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 9 and
all relevant conventions, together with the optional protocols thereto, as appropriate,
constitute an important contribution to the legal framework for the protection and
promotion of the human rights of women and girls,
__________________
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
18-22201 (E)
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2007, Supplement No. 7 (E/2007/27),
chap. I, sect. D.
Ibid., 2008, Supplement No. 7 (E/2008/27), chap. I, sect. D.
Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap. I,
sect. D.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. VI, sect. A.
Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
170119
*1822201*