Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child

A/RES/40/113View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 103 Question of a Convention on the Rights of the Child, published in 1986.

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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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5 operative paragraphs

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Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1985/42, 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 forty-second session of the Commission with a view to completing the work on a draft convention on the rights of the child;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to give the highest priority to, and to make every effort at its fortysecond session to complete, the draft convention and to submit it, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its forty-first session;

Invites all Member States to offer their active contribution to the completion of the draft convention on the rights of the child at the forty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide all necessary assistance to the working group in order to ensure its smooth and efficient work in the fulfilment of its important task;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-first session the item entitled "Question of a convention on the rights of the child".

111 A/40/493 and Add. I and .'

11 2 See Official Records o{the Economic arui Social Counc,I, /978. Supple 11 4 /hid., /985, Supplemefll So 2 (f, 1985122), chap. XIII. men/ No. 4(E/1978/34), chap. XXVI, sect. A.

I I 5 .\'C.3/40/3 and Corr. I ll3 /bid., 1979, Supplement No. 6 (E/1979/36), chap. XXIV. sect. A.

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