A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/50/153 15 February 1996 Fiftieth session Agenda item 110 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/50/633)] 50/153. The rights of the child The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/209, 49/210, 49/211 and 49/212 of 23 December 1994, Recalling also the recommendation in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 1/ that measures be taken to achieve, by 1995, universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, and the universal signing of the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s adopted by the World Summit for Children, 2/ as well as their effective implementation, Recalling further Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1995/78 and 1995/79 of 8 March 1995, 3/ Convinced that the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as a standardsetting accomplishment of the United Nations in the field of human rights, makes a positive contribution to protecting the rights of children and ensuring their well-being, Seriously concerned about those reservations to the Convention that are contrary to the object and purpose of the Convention or otherwise contrary to international treaty law, and recalling that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action urges States to withdraw such reservations, ______________ 1/ A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 2/ See A/45/625, annex. 3/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1995/23 and Corr.1 and 2). 96-76735 /...