Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child.
| Publisher | UN Commission on Human Rights |
| Author | UN Commission on Human Rights (38th sess. : 1982 : Geneva) |
| Publication Date | 11 March 1982 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | E/CN.4/RES/1982/39 |
| Reference | 38 |
| Cite as | UN Commission on Human Rights, Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child., 11 March 1982, E/CN.4/RES/1982/39, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f02a28.html [accessed 20 September 2023] |
1982/39. Question of a convention on the rights of the child[1]128
The Commission on Human Rights, Having in mind the draft convention on the rights of the child submitted by P land on 7 February 1978,[2]129 the amended version of the draft submitted on 5 October 1979[3]130 and the document submitted by Poland on 7 October 1981,[4]131 Recalling General Assembly resolutions 33/166 of 20 December 1978, 34/4 of 18 October 1979 and 35/131 of 11 December 1980, as well as resolution 36/57 of 25 November 1981, by which the Assembly requested the Commission on Human Rights to continue to give the highest priority to the question of completing the draft convention on the rights of the child, Recalling also its resolutions 20 (XXXIV) of 8 March 1978, 19 (XXXV) of 14 March 1979, 36 (XXXVI) of 12 March 1980 and 26 (XXXVII) of 10 March 1981, as well as Economic and Social Council resolutions 1978/18 of 5 May 1978 and 1978/40 of 1 August 1978, and Council decision 1980/138 of 2 May 1980 and 1981/144 of 8 May 1981, Noting with satisfaction the considerable progress made by the open-ended working group during its one week of negotiations prior to the thirty-eighth session of the Commission and during the present session, Noting also the widespread interest in working out a truly comprehensive international convention on the rights of the child displayed so far by the representatives of numerous countries and international organizations,1. Decides to continue at its thirty-ninth session, as a matter of high priority, its work on a draft convention on the rights of the child, with a view to completing the elaboration of the convention at that session for transmission to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council;
2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to authorize a one-week session of an open-ended working group prior to the thirty-ninth session of the Commission on Human Rights to facilitate completion of the work on a draft convention on the rights of the child;
3. Recommends that the Economic and Social Council should adopt the following resolution:
[For the text, see chapter I, section A, draft resolution IV.]
[1]128 Adopted at the 60th meeting on 11 March 1982, without a vote. See chap. XI. [2]129 Commission on Human Rights resolution 20 (XXXIV), annex. [3]130 E/CN.4/1349. [4]131 A/C.3/36/6.
