Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child

A/RES/38/114View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95 Question of a convention on the rights of the child, published in 1984.

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10 versions · 1979–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/112

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/112	Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child	562	42%Compare
1988	A/RES/42/101	Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child	730	65%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/116	Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child	618	79%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/113	Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child	607	60%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/135	Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child	705	50%Compare

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3 subjects

Rights of the Child Treaties Working Groups

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We/comes Economic and Social Council resolution 1983/39, in 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;

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;

Invites ali Member States to offer their effective contribution to the completion without delay of the draft convention on the rights of the child;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide all necessary assistance to the working group to ensure its smooth and efficient work;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 5. thiriy-nin.th session the item entitled "Question of a convention on the rights of the child".

148Resolution 217 A (III). 149 Resolution 2200 (XXI). annex. l 50 Rcsolution 328 l (XXIX). 151 Rcsolutions 3201 (S-Vl) and 3202 (S-VI) 152 Resolution 2734 (XXV) 153 Resolution 3384 (XXX) 154 Resolution 33173. 155 Rcsolution 36/100. 156 See O[firial Records o(thc Fcom,mic ,,mi Socw/ < ·ou11c1/. /9/l.1 , Suppli· menl No. 2 (E 11982' 12 and Con.1 l. chap XXVI. sel'l. A 157 lhid .. 1983, S11p¡,lcmcm No. 3 (E11983il3 and Corr.1). chap. XXVII. \CCt. ;\_

158 Jhid .. /978. Supp/emcnr No. 4 (E/1978/34). chap. XXVI. sect. A.

ISQ Jhid .. 1979. Supp/emenr No. 6 (E/1979/36). chap. XXIV. sect. A.

160 Jh1d .. 1980, S11pp/cmcnr No. 3 (E: 1980; l 3 and Con. l ). chap. XXVI. ,ect. .\.

161 Jh1d .. l9RI. S1,n•lemcnr No 5 (E/1981125 and Corr.l), chap. XXVIII. '-,Cl't. 4-.

162 Resolution 1386 (XIV).

lt.5 Resolution 2200 A (XXII annex.

163 See E/CN.4/1983/62.

166 A/38/392.

164 See Official Record~ ofthe Econom,c and Soual Couno/, / 11//3, Su¡1¡1/clr. 7 O/final Rl'/'ord, o( the /,, 11eral .-hscmblr. l/11rtr-eighrh S,•111011. Sur ment No. 3 (E/1983/13 and Corr. l ). chap. Xl ¡1/nw11i \'o. 40 (A'.1X 40)

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