A/RES/61/146
Follow-up
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Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-second session a report on the rights of the child, containing information on
the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child2 and the issues contained in
the present resolution;
(b) To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Children and Armed Conflict to continue to submit reports to the General Assembly
and the Human Rights Council on the progress achieved and the remaining
challenges on the children and armed conflict agenda;
(c) To invite the independent expert for the United Nations study on violence
against children, in cooperation with Member States, relevant organizations and
bodies of the United Nations system, in particular the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the
World Health Organization, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the
Human Rights Council, and regional organizations, national institutions and civil
society, including non-governmental organizations, to promote the wide
dissemination of the United Nations study on violence against children, 18 to give
support to the first year of effective follow-up to its recommendations with an
integrated approach that bridges the dimensions of public health, education, child
protection and human rights, to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-second
session a report on progress made in the initial phase of the follow-up and to
anticipate the necessary strategy for follow-up to the implementation of the study;
(d) To reiterate its invitation to the Chairman of the Committee on the Rights
of the Child to present an oral report on the work of the Committee to the General
Assembly at its sixty-second session as a way to enhance communication between
the Assembly and the Committee;
(e) To pay particular attention to the protection of and the rights of children
living in poverty at the commemorative plenary meeting to be held in 2007 devoted
to the follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-seventh special session of the General
Assembly;
(f) To continue its consideration of the question at its sixty-second session
under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of children”,
focusing section III of the resolution on the rights of the child on “Violence against
children”.
81st plenary meeting
19 December 2006
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