A/HRC/RES/28/19
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 April 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
28/19.
Rights of the child: towards better investment in the rights
of the child
The Human Rights Council,
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child constitutes the standard
in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, bearing in mind the importance of
the Optional Protocols to the Convention, and calling for their universal ratification and
effective implementation, as well as that of other relevant human rights instruments,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the rights of the child of the Commission on
Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, the most recent
being Council resolution 25/6 of 27 March 2014 and Assembly resolution 69/157 of 18
December 2014,
Reaffirming that the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
including non-discrimination, the best interests of the child, survival and development, and
participation, provide the framework for all actions concerning children,
Welcoming the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and of other
United Nations treaty bodies, and noting its general comments, in particular general
comment no. 5, on general measures of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child,
Noting Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights general comments no.
3, on the nature of States parties’ obligations, and no. 9, on the domestic application of the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Welcoming the attention paid to the rights of the child by the Special Rapporteur on
the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the Special Representative of
the Secretary-General on Violence against Children and the Special Representative of the
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