A/RES/59/261
Follow-up
50. Urges those States that have not yet done so to complete as soon as
possible a national action plan incorporating the goals agreed at the special session
of the General Assembly on children, as reflected in its outcome document entitled
“A world fit for children”,5 and to place those goals within the framework of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child;2
51.
Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to prepare an updated report on the
progress achieved in realizing the commitments set out in the document entitled “A
world fit for children”, with a view to identifying new challenges and making
recommendations on the action needed to achieve further progress;
(b) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixtieth session a report on the rights of the child, containing information on the
status of the Convention and the issues addressed in the present resolution;
(c) 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 Commission on Human Rights and to ensure that they contain relevant,
accurate and objective information on the situation of children affected by armed
conflict, taking into account the views of Member States and the outcome document
adopted by the General Assembly at its special session on children and bearing in
mind existing mandates and reports of relevant bodies;
(d) To invite 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
sixtieth session;
(e) To focus its general debate regarding the promotion of the rights of the
child, at future sessions, on specific challenges, beginning, at its sixtieth session,
with the contribution that the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child can make to the eradication of poverty and hunger;
(f) To continue its consideration of the question at its sixtieth session under
the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of children”.
76th plenary meeting
23 December 2004
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