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Promotion and protection of the rights of
children
Date of
consideration: 14,
17 and 18 October 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/499
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Documents:
A/60/175 [F]
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A/60/175/Corr.1 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on the rights of the child containing
information on the status of the Convention and the problems
addressed in the present resolution
A/60/207 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on progress achieved in realizing the
commitments set out in the document, entitled "A world fit for
children"
A/60/282 [F]
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Report of the
independent export for the United Nations study on violence
against children
A/60/335 [F]
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Note by the
Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed
conflict
Summary:
At its
forty-fourth session, in 1989, the General Assembly adopted
the Convention on the Rights of the Child (resolution 44/25).
The Convention entered into force on 2 September 1990. At its
fifty-fourth session, the Assembly adopted two optional
protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(resolution
54/263): one on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography, and one on children in
armed conflict. The first protocol entered into force on 18
January 2002 and the second on 12 February 2002.
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its sixtieth
session: (a) an updated report on the progress achieved in
realizing the commitments set out in the document entitled "A
world fit for children", and (b) a report on the rights of the
child containing information on the status of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child and the issues addressed in the
resolution; requested the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to continue
to submit to the General Assembly and the Commission on Human
Rights reports containing relevant, accurate and objective
information on the situation of children affected by armed
conflict; invited the independent expert for the United
Nations study on violence against children to report to the
Assembly at its sixtieth session; and invited the Chairman of
the Committee on the Rights of the Child to present an oral
report on the work of the Committee to the Assembly at its
sixtieth session (resolution
59/261).
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