Question of a convention on the rights of the child.
- Author: UN General Assembly (38th sess. : 1983-1984)
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Date:
16 December 1983
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Question of a convention on the rights of the child
1. Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1983/39, by which the Council authorized a meeting of an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights for a period of one week prior to the fortieth session of the Commission to facilitate and speed up the completion of the work on a draft convention on the rights of the child;
2. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to give the highest priority at its fortieth session to the question of completing the draft convention and to make every effort to submit it, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-ninth session, as the Commission's tangible contribution to the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child;
3. Invites all Member States to offer their effective contribution to the completion without delay of the draft convention on the rights of the child;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide all necessary assistance to the working group to ensure its smooth and efficient work;
5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-ninth session the item entitled "Question of a convention on the rights of the child".
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