A/RES/72/245 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 January 2018 Seventy-second session Agenda item 68 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2017 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/435)] 72/245. 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 legislative, 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 implementat ion, as well as that of other human rights instruments, Reaffirming also all of its previous resolutions on the rights of the child, the most recent of which was resolution 71/177 of 19 December 2016, Recalling all other relevant resolutions, including resolutions 71/167 of 19 December 2016 on trafficking in women and girls, 71/168 of 19 December 2016 on intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation, 71/170 of 19 December 2016 entitled “Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence ”, 71/175 of 19 December 2016 on child, early and forced marriage, and 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 tha t everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction of any kind, __________________ 1 2 3 17-23328 (E) United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531. Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex. Resolution 217 A (III). 260118 *1723328*