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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,
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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).
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