Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child.

UN Commission on Human Rights (39th sess. : 1983 : Geneva), Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child., E/CN.4/RES/1983/52, UN Commission on Human Rights, 10 March 1983, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unchr/1983/en/47324 [accessed 14 June 2025]
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1983/52. Question of a convention on the rights of the child[1]118

The Commission on Human Rights, Bearing in mind the draft convention on the rights of the child submitted by Poland on 7 February 1978,[2]119 the amended version of the draft submitted on 5 October 1979 to the Commission on Human Rights[3]120 and the document submitted on 7 October 1981 by Poland to thew General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session,[4]121 Recalling General Assembly resolutions 33/166 of 20 December 1978, 34/4 of 18 October 1979, 35/131 of 11 December 1980, 36/57 of 25 November 1981 and 37/190 of 18 December 1982, 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, 26 (XXXVII) of 10 March 1981 and 1982/39 of 11 March 1982, and Economic and Social Council decisions 1980/138 of 2 May 1980 and 1981/144 of 8 May 1981 and resolutions 1978/18 of 5 May 1978, 1978/40 of 1 August 1978 and 1982/37 of 7 May 1982, by which it authorized a meeting of an open-ended working group for a period of one week prior to the thirty-ninth session of the Commission to facilitate the completion of the work on the draft convention on the rights of the child, Noting the further progress made by the open-ended working group during its one-week meeting prior to the thirty-ninth session of the Commission, Noting also the widespread interest in working out a comprehensive international convention on the rights of the child displayed by numerous Governments and international organizations,

1. Decides to continue at its fortieth session, as a matter of the highest priority, its work on the elaboration of the draft convention on the rights of the child, with a view to completing the draft at that session for transmission, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly;

2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to authorize a one-week session of an open-ended working group prior to the fortieth session of the Commission on Human Rights to facilitate and speed up completion of the work on a draft convention on the rights of the child;

3. Recommends the following draft resolution to the Economic and Social Council for adoption:

[For the text, see chap. I, seat. A, draft resolution IX.]


[1]118 Adopted at the 56th meeting, on 10 March 1983, without a vote. See chap. XI. [2]119 Commission resolution 20 (XXXIV), annex. [3]120 E/CN.4/1349. [4]121 A/C.3/36/6.
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