Follow-Up to the Outcome of the Special Session on Children

A/RES/58/282No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 41Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children, published in 2004.

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 topics

Children Civil Society Consultations Coordination Within UN System Declarations Information Dissemination Information Exchange Intergovernmental Organizations Non-Governmental Organizations Periodic Reports Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Regional Cooperation Rights of the Child Specialized Agencies

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

17 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2004–2026.

Reports

Span

2004–2026

23 years

2026A/81/81Follow-up to the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children report of the Secretary-General
2024A/79/274Follow-up to the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children report of the Secretary-General
2022A/77/309Follow-up to the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children report of the Secretary-General
2020A/75/286Follow-up to the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children report of the Secretary-General
2019A/74/240Follow-up to the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children report of the Secretary-General

Identified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;

Takes note of the initial progress made in the implementation of the Declaration and the Plan of Action1 by Governments, as well as by intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, and the support provided to them by relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes;

Calls upon Member States that have not yet done so to prepare or strengthen national action plans and, where appropriate, regional action plans, with a set of specific time-bound and measurable goals and targets, and in this context encourages cooperation with civil society actors, including non-governmental organizations working for and with children, as well as children themselves, in order to implement the commitments made at the special session on children and at other relevant major United Nations conferences and summits, in particular the Millennium Summit;

Urges all relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, and invites intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and civil society, to lend their full support to implementing the commitments made in the final document of the twenty-seventh special session, entitled “A world fit for children”, and to keep the Secretary-General informed of their actions;

Requests the United Nations Children’s Fund to continue to prepare and disseminate, in close collaboration with Governments, relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nation system and all other relevant actors, as appropriate, information on the progress made in the implementation of the Plan of Action;

Requests the governing bodies of the relevant specialized agencies to ensure that, within their mandates, the agencies give their fullest possible support for the achievement of the goals outlined in the Plan of Action and to keep the General Assembly fully informed, through the Economic and Social Council, of progress and additional action required using existing reporting frameworks and procedures;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to report regularly to the General Assembly on the progress made in implementing the Declaration and the Plan of Action;

Decides to convene a commemorative plenary meeting in 2007, on a date to be decided at its sixtieth session, devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of its twenty-seventh special session and the progress made in implementing the Declaration and the Plan of Action, based on a report to be prepared by the Secretary-General, and invites the President of the General Assembly to finalize organizational matters in consultation with Member States;

Decides also to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the item entitled “Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children”.

Paragraph content is machine-extracted from UN documents. For authoritative content, please refer to the official UN document.

No headings found in this document.

Who created this mandate?

What subjects does this mandate have?

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

What does this mandate say?

Table of contents