Rights of the Child

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 70aPromotion and protection of the rights of children, published in 2021.

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23 versions · 2003–2025

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What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics

Anti-Discrimination Measures Child Abuse Child Welfare Children in Armed Conflicts Rights of the Child Sustainable Development

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2022–2026.

Span

2022–2026

5 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
2023A/78/366Status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 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

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What does this mandate say?

79 operative paragraphs

Recognizes that the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the human rights treaty with the largest number of ratifications, and acknowledges that the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto contain a comprehensive set of international legal standards for the protection and well-being of children;

Calls upon States parties to increase their efforts for the full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

Reaffirms paragraphs 1, 4 and 5 of its resolution 71/177 of 19 December 2016 and that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children;

Urges States that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto as a matter of priority and to implement them effectively, and encourages further efforts by the Secretary-General in this regard;

Urges States parties to withdraw reservations that are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention or the Optional Protocols thereto and to consider reviewing regularly other reservations with a view to withdrawing them in accordance with the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

Takes note of the work of the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children and for Children and Armed Conflict, the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other sexual abuse material, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and, in this regard, their contribution to the progress achieved in the promotion and protection of the rights of children;

Reaffirms section I of its resolution 74/133, entitled “Children without parental care”, which addresses, among other things, the economic and social well-being of children; the right to education; promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children in particularly difficult situations, including children with disabilities; migrant children; children affected by armed conflict; children facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination; the human rights of children in alternative care; the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective; and children who are victims of trafficking; children in vulnerable situations children with HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses;

Calls upon States to ensure the enjoyment by all children of all their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights without discrimination of any kind;

Notes with concern the large number of children belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, migrant children, refugee or asylum-seeking children, internally displaced children, children with disabilities, children of African descent and indigenous children who are victims of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, stresses the need to incorporate gender-sensitive and special measures, into education programmes and programmes to combat these practices, in accordance with the principle of the best interests of the child and respect for their views, including children with disabilities, and calls upon States to provide special support and to ensure equal access to services for those children and their effective protection;

Encourages States to promote the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in accordance with their obligations under international law and in the best interests of the child;

Recalls every child’s right to be registered immediately after birth, to a name, to acquire a nationality and to recognition everywhere as a person before the law, as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, respectively, reminds States of their obligation to ensure the registration of the birth of all children without discrimination of any kind, including in the case of late birth registration, calls upon States to ensure that birth registration procedures are universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective and provided at minimal or no cost, and recognizes the importance of birth registration as a critical means of preventing statelessness;

Urges States to improve the situation of children living in poverty, in particular extreme poverty, deprived of adequate nutritious food, clean drinking water and sanitation facilities, with limited or no access to basic physical and mental health-care services, shelter, education, participation and protection, taking into account that, while a severe lack of goods and services hurts every human being, it is particularly threatening and harmful to children, leaving them unable to enjoy their rights, to reach their full potential and to participate as full members of society, and exposed to conditions that lead to increased violence;

Calls upon all States and the international community to cooperate, support and participate in the global efforts for poverty eradication, to invest in children and mobilize all necessary resources and support in that regard, according to national plans and strategies, including through an integrated and multifaceted approach based on the well-being of children, and to accelerate their efforts to realize the internationally agreed development and poverty eradication goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, within their time framework, and reaffirms that investments in children and the realization of their rights are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty;

Calls upon States to scale up scientifically accurate and age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, and with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the best interests of the child as their basic concern, with information on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention, gender equality and women’s empowerment, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and foster informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills and to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young people, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to, inter alia, enable them protect themselves from HIV infection and other risks;

Reaffirms the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination, and calls upon States to make primary education compulsory, inclusive and available free to all children, ensuring that all children have equal access to education of good quality, making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular through the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion by eliminating social, economic and gender disparities in education and ensuring school attendance, in particular for girls, children with disabilities, pregnant adolescent girls, children living in poverty, indigenous children, children of African descent, persons belonging to ethnic or religious minorities and children in vulnerable or marginalized situations;

Urges Member States to ensure that all schools are safe and free from violence, such as bullying, including cyberbullying, sexual harassment, including peer-to-peer sexual harassment, online and offline, and that they address all forms of violence against children, with particular attention to girls and children with disabilities and in vulnerable situations;

Calls upon States to accelerate efforts to eliminate gender-specific barriers to the equal enjoyment by girls of their right to education, to address gender-based discrimination, negative social norms and gender stereotypes in education systems, including in curricula, textbooks and teaching methodologies, and to fight all forms of violence, including sexual harassment and school-related sexual and gender-based violence, in and out of schools and other educational settings;

Urges States to take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour and to end child labour in all its forms, by 2025 at the latest;

Strongly condemns all forms of violence, harassment and abuse against children in all settings, including physical, psychological and sexual violence, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, child abuse and exploitation, hostage-taking, domestic violence, incest, trafficking in or sale of children and their organs, paedophilia, child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, child sex tourism, gang and armed violence, sexual exploitation of children online and offline, bullying, including cyberbullying, and harmful practices, including female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriage, and urges States to strengthen efforts to prevent and protect children from all such violence through a comprehensive, gender-responsive and age-appropriate approach and to develop an inclusive multifaceted and systematic framework, which is integrated into national planning processes, to respond effectively to violence against children and to provide for safe and child-sensitive counselling, complaint and reporting mechanisms and safeguards for the rights of affected children;

Calls upon Member States to ensure that child protection, including social protection and mental health services, is recognized as essential and that it continues to be provided and be accessible and available to all children at all times, including during lockdowns, quarantines and other types of confinement and public health measures;

Calls upon all States to protect the human rights of all children and to ensure, for children belonging to minorities in vulnerable situations, including migrant children, indigenous children, children of African descent, internally displaced children and children with disabilities, the enjoyment of all human rights as well as access to health care, social services, social protection and accessible and inclusive education on an equal basis with others, and to ensure that all such children, in particular unaccompanied migrant children, internally displaced children and those who are victims of violence and exploitation, receive special protection and assistance and that the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in their policies of integration, return and family reunification;

Condemns in the strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children in armed conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that are engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, in the recruitment and use of children, in patterns of killing and maiming of children and/or rape and other sexual violence against children, acknowledging that sexual violence in these situations disproportionately affects girls, but that boys are also targets, in recurrent attacks on schools and/or hospitals and related personnel and in patterns of abduction of children, as well as in all other violations and abuses against children, to take time-bound and effective measures to end and prevent them and to encourage age- and gender-specific support services, including psychological, social and sexual and reproductive health-care services, and education, social protection and reintegration programmes;

Calls upon all Member States to ensure that children associated or allegedly associated with armed groups should be treated primarily as victims and in line with the best interests of the child, and to consider non-judicial measures as alternatives to prosecution and detention and take measures that focus on rehabilitation and reintegration in an environment that fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child, in accordance with relevant provisions of international humanitarian law, as well as international human rights law, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

Calls upon States to protect children affected by armed conflict, in particular from violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, and to ensure that they receive timely, effective humanitarian assistance, noting the efforts taken to end impunity by ensuring accountability and punishing perpetrators, and calls upon the international community to hold those responsible for violations accountable, inter alia, through the International Criminal Court;

Calls upon Member States to prevent the harmful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children by mitigating the damaging socioeconomic impacts, including by ensuring the continuity of child-centred services and policies on an equal and attainable access basis, upholding the right of the child to quality education on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination and supporting education that is inclusive, equitable and accessible by implementing appropriate measures to ensure supporting families in the return of children, particularly girls and children in vulnerable situations, to school, when it is safe to do so, and access to opportunities to catch up on lost learning and while in confinement, to support school systems, teachers and families in ensuring a reliable source of daily nutrition and using accessible and inclusive distance-learning solutions to close the digital divides, while protecting children from violence, abuse and exploitation, online and offline, and recalling that no child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy and family;

Encourages States to make efforts towards putting children’s needs at the centre of digital policy, and public and private investment, providing all children with equal and effective access to age-appropriate information, and information on their rights, and to high-quality online resources, including on digital skills and literacy, and protecting children from online risks and harm, as well as arbitrary or unlawful interference with their privacy on social media, as well as preventing children’s exposure to violent and sexual content, gambling, exploitation and abuse, and the promotion of or incitement to life-threatening activities;

Calls upon States, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, to ensure that COVID-19 response and recovery policies take into account the specific needs of children and in this regard are transformative, age-sensitive and gender-responsive, participatory and adequately funded, promote inclusive, equal and sustainable economies and societies, and address inequalities and exclusion and poverty, in order to achieve the targets and goals of the 2030 Agenda;

I.Children and the Sustainable Development Goals

Reaffirms that children’s rights and the 2030 Agenda are linked and that all the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda directly and indirectly impact the lives and rights of children, and, in this regard, calls upon States to invest in and prioritize the promotion, protection, respect and fulfilment of the rights of children, through their legislation, policies, programmes and budgets, as appropriate, in accordance with their obligations under international law;

Notes the importance of promoting safe and enabling conditions for children facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, such as children belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, as well as migrant children, refugee or asylum-seeking children, internally displaced children, children of African descent and indigenous children;

Recognizes that the right of the child to education can be severely hampered as a result of physical, psychological and sexual violence, as well as bullying, in school, outside school and on the way to school, as well as online, which compromises learning outcomes and may lead to school dropout, and therefore calls upon States to prevent and protect children, including migrant children and children in vulnerable situations, from bullying, including cyberbullying and other online risks, such as sexual violence and online exploitation, by generating statistical information, promptly and adequately responding to such acts and providing appropriate support and counselling to children affected by and involved in bullying;

Urges States to take all actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for all children, including by:

Prioritizing the promotion, respect, protection and fulfilment of the rights of the child in budgetary allocation and fiscal measures, where appropriate, including in preparedness, prevention and response measures to emergencies, including by allocating and distributing sufficient and equitable public resources to sectors and services that are critical for children, with special focus on children in the most vulnerable and disadvantaged situations and those living in extreme poverty;

Promoting and prioritizing investment in universal social protection systems, including child-centred policies and measures, intensifying efforts to improve the standard of living of all children as a matter of priority, paying particular attention to those children who are most disadvantaged and discriminated against;

Prioritizing the establishment and strengthening of national and subnational systems to protect children from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, as well as the implementation of increased targeted prevention and response services, particularly for those in vulnerable situations;

Prioritizing investment in multisectoral collaboration, strengthening social services for child protection and making systems inclusive to respond to the needs of all children, with a focus on both primary violence prevention for all children as well as more targeted prevention and response services, particularly for children in vulnerable situations;

Scaling up, as appropriate, cash transfer programmes for the benefit of children, strengthening public finance response and expanding shock-responsive social protection programmes and systems geared towards children in the medium and longer term;

Promoting inclusive and responsive family-oriented policies, including those designed to strengthen parents’ and caregivers’ ability to care for children and support social policies that address gender stereotypes and negative social norms that impact equal access to quality education, and prevent and eliminate child labour;

Improving children’s health through the strengthening of public health-care systems by actions such as ensuring universal health coverage, increasing accessibility, sufficiency, acceptability, affordability and quality of health care, improving access for children to safely managed drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services, adequate nutritious food programmes and healthy food environments, and education on HIV prevention and treatment programmes as well as ensuring access to specific support services, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and targets;

Designing and implementing programmes to provide pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers with education, including access to quality education, social services and support, to enable them to continue and complete their education, care for their children and protect them from discrimination, as well as to ensure healthy and safe pregnancy;

Ensuring that COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics are available equitably and universally, and contribute to the global immunization strategy against COVID-19, particularly for developing countries;

Increasing cooperation to address the effects of environmental harm on the rights of the child by taking appropriate measures to put children at the centre of climate change strategies and response plans, where applicable, and support climate change and environmental education while providing a safe and empowering context for children;

Minimizing the impacts of climate change on children to the greatest extent possible by developing and implementing ambitious mitigation measures and adaptation plans in accordance with the commitments undertaken under the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to consider States’ obligations regarding the rights of the child;

Encouraging that the private sector carries out environmental and human rights impact assessments, as appropriate, to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for the adverse impacts business activities have on the rights of the child, and in that regard taking note of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;

Ensuring that all children have equitable access to quality learning and education, by taking appropriate actions towards eliminating undue barriers to education, and ensuring that schools adapt to and accommodate all children, regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic or other personal circumstances, and prioritize foundational learning for all, during school closures, through alternative learning opportunities and, when they open, through catch-up opportunities;

Addressing the learning crisis exacerbated by COVID-19 by ensuring the quality, availability, affordability, inclusivity and accessibility of early childhood development and learning programmes, including pre-primary, primary and secondary education, as well as taking necessary steps to guarantee access to education without discrimination and harassment to those children in particularly vulnerable situations;

Reaffirming the commitments made by Member States to take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour and trafficking in persons, secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms;

Recognizing the importance of revitalized global partnerships to ensure the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including the implementation of the Goals and targets related to the elimination of child labour;

Also urges States to ensure that legal frameworks, policies and programmes provide all children with equal protection and preserve the principle of non-discrimination, including by:

Adopting measures to reduce children’s contact with the criminal justice system by making use of diversion measures and restorative justice, including in humanitarian situations, while ensuring equal access to justice, protection and support for children, including access to legal aid when needed;

Reaffirming that children shall not be deprived of their liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily and that the arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law, including international human rights law, respecting due process, and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time;

Promoting alternatives to detention for children, and taking steps to minimize the risk of violence against children in detention, as well as encouraging and facilitating frequent family visits and regular contact and communication between children and their family members unless it is in the child’s best interest not to do so, as well as with the outside world, and to ensure that no child is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment or that disciplinary sanctions for detained children do not include a prohibition of contact with family members;

Taking measures to ensure that all children who are separated from their parents in accordance with applicable law and procedures, and where such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child, are promptly referred to child protection authorities and provided with appropriate and quality alternative care, inter alia, family and community-based care;

Ensuring that children with disabilities and their families, as appropriate, have an active role in the development and implementation of all policy planning, and have access to a range of support services, information in accessible formats and education, including on how to prevent, recognize and report instances of exploitation, violence and abuse, how to ensure that children with disabilities have a safe and supportive family environment as well as are involved in the realization of their rights, including during humanitarian response efforts;

Mainstreaming a gender perspective across programmes, policies and budgets in all sectors and implementing gender-responsive measures that address the specific needs of girls in policies and programmes related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda;

Scaling up programming for girls, including: education and skills development training for adolescent girls; to address gender-specific barriers to the equal enjoyment by girls of their right to education and access to quality education; to ensure access to gender-specific support services, including psychological, social and sexual and reproductive health-care services, and education, including in emergencies; and to ensure that girls’ opinions are heard, and that measures are taken to enable young women and girls to successfully grow into leadership positions in public and private spheres by ensuring their full and equal access to education, technology and skills development, leadership and mentorship programmes, increased technical and financial support, and protection from violence and discrimination;

Protecting, with the support of other relevant actors, the human rights of children without discrimination of any kind, including migration status, and ensuring that they receive appropriate protection, assistance and access to services included in health, education, social and child protection systems; and taking proactive steps to ensure their inclusion in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly through mitigation efforts, recovery plans and COVID-19 vaccine roll-out shall evidence confirm their need;

Ensuring, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, that COVID-19 response measures targeting children are transformative, participatory and adequately funded, promote inclusive, gender-equal and sustainable economies and societies, and address gender inequality, exclusion and poverty, and that proactive steps are taken to ensure their inclusion in COVID-19 recovery plans;

Taking appropriate measures to mitigate the mass disruption to education systems across the world caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, continue with the provision of subsidized school meals and ensure that all children, in particular girls, return to school as soon as possible when it is safe to do so;

Strengthening their national legal and policy frameworks to ensure that children who are capable of forming their own views have the right to express their views freely in all matters affecting them;

Improving and securing a comprehensive approach to data collection, compilation and storage methods; strengthening child age-sensitive indicators; increasing the disaggregation of data and strengthening multi-stakeholder partnerships between national statistical offices, national human rights institutions, where they exist, and local civil society organizations; allocating adequate resources to national statistical offices and appointing child rights focal points in these institutions; ensuring adequate investments in community and national data ecosystems; and providing the necessary political and institutional support to data collection, processing, analysis, dissemination and use;

Calls upon States, in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to prioritize the restoration of interrupted child services, including education, nutrition, maternal and newborn health, immunization and sexual and reproductive health-care services, HIV treatment, mental health and psychosocial support, and child social and protection services, ensuring that targeted approaches are in place to reduce gender inequality and protect children from discrimination and from violence, including sexual and gender-based violence;

Calls upon all parties to armed conflict to ensure the full, safe and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel and the delivery of humanitarian assistance to all children affected by armed conflict;

II.Follow-up

Expresses support for the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, and recognizes the progress achieved since the establishment of her mandate in promoting the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children in all regions and in advancing the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study on violence against children, including through partnerships with regional organizations, as well as advocacy through thematic consultations, field missions and thematic reports addressing emerging concerns, including on violence prevention in early childhood;

Requests all relevant organs, bodies, entities, organizations and mechanisms of the United Nations system to mainstream the promotion, respect, protection and fulfilment of the rights of the child throughout their activities, in accordance with their respective mandates, as well as to ensure that their staff are trained in child rights matters, and take further steps to increase system-wide coordination and inter-agency cooperation for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child;

Takes note with appreciation of the United Nations global study on children deprived of liberty and the leadership of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children in the follow-up to the study in cooperation with the other entities in the United Nations inter-agency task force, the non-governmental organization panel and other relevant stakeholders, and encourages the Special Representative to continue her work in this regard;

Recommends that the Secretary-General extend the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, as established in paragraphs 58 and 59 of its resolution 62/141 of 18 December 2007, for a further four years, and maintain support for the effective and independent performance and sustainability of the mandate of the Special Representative, funded from the regular budget;

Urges all States, requests United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and invites regional organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to cooperate with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children in promoting the further implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study on violence against children and in supporting Member States in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, encourages States to provide support to the Special Representative, including adequate voluntary financial support for the continued, effective and independent performance of her mandate, and invites organizations, including the private sector, to provide voluntary contributions for that purpose;

Recognizes the work of the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, its increased level of work and the progress achieved since the establishment of the mandate of the Special Representative, and, bearing in mind its resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008 and paragraphs 35 to 37 of its resolution 51/77 of 12 December 1996, as well as paragraph 39 of its resolution 72/245 of 24 December 2017, recommends that the Secretary-General extend the mandate of the Special Representative for a further four years;

Recalls that 2021 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 51/77, by which the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict was created, welcomes the efforts by the Special Representative to increase public awareness and collect, assess and disseminate best practices and lessons learned, including the “Act to protect children affected by conflict” campaign, the “Practical guidance for mediators to protect children in situations of armed conflict”, the Global Coalition for Reintegration of Child Soldiers, as well as regional workshops organized with all country task forces on monitoring and reporting, and particularly welcomes in this regard an increased engagement with States, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, regional and subregional organizations and civil society;

Notes with appreciation the steps taken regarding Security Council resolutions 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004, 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005, 1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009, 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011, 2068 (2012) of 19 September 2012, 2225 (2015) of 18 June 2015, 2286 (2016) of 3 May 2016 and 2427 (2018) of 9 July 2018 and the efforts of the Secretary-General to implement the monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict in accordance with those resolutions, with the participation of and in cooperation with national Governments and relevant United Nations and civil society actors, including at the country level, requests the Secretary-General to ensure that information collected and communicated by the monitoring and reporting mechanism is accurate, objective and verifiable, and in this regard encourages the work and the deployment of United Nations child protection advisers in peacekeeping operations and political and peacebuilding missions;

Decides:

To continue its consideration of the question at its seventy-eighth session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of children”;

To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child containing information on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and on the issues addressed in the present resolution, with a focus on the digital environment;

To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to continue to submit reports to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in fulfilment of her mandate, including information on her field visits and on the progress achieved and the challenges remaining on the children and armed conflict agenda;

To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, in carrying out her mandate for the protection of children in situations of armed conflict, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council, to continue to engage proactively with relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, Member States, regional and subregional organizations and non-State armed groups, including by negotiating action plans, securing commitments, advocating for appropriate response mechanisms and ensuring attention and follow-up to the conclusions and recommendations of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, and reaffirms the important role that the Special Representative can play in contributing to conflict prevention;

To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children to continue to submit annual reports to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in fulfilment of her mandate, consistent with paragraphs 58 and 59 of its resolution 62/141, including information on her field visits and on the progress achieved and the challenges remaining on the violence against children agenda;

To request the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, to continue to submit reports to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in fulfilment of her mandate, including information on her field visits and on the progress achieved and the challenges remaining in the prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material and the sexual exploitation and abuse of children;

To invite the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to present an oral report on the work of the Committee and to engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth sessions as a way to enhance communication between the Assembly and the Committee;

To request the Secretary-General to submit, on a biennial basis as from the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, the report on the follow-up to the outcome of the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children of 2002, to both the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, as mandated by General Assembly resolution S-27/2, focusing on children and the Sustainable Development Goals, in the light of the interrelation between the realization of children’s rights and the successful implementation of the Goals.

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