A/RES/78/188
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 67
Promotion and protection of the rights of children
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/476, para. 19)]
78/188.
The girl child
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 76/146 of 16 December 2021 and all relevant
resolutions on the girl child, and recalling its resolution 66/170 of 19 December 2011
on the International Day of the Girl Child and the agreed conclusions of the
Commission on the Status of Women, in particular those relevant to the girl child,
Recalling all human rights and other instruments relevant to the rights of the
child, in particular the girl child, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 2
the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3 the Optional Protocols
thereto 4 and the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and
Registration of Marriages, 5
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, and the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 6
and reaffirming also other internationally agreed development goals and
commitments relevant to the girl child,
Noting the adoption of the Southern African Development Community Model
Law on Eradicating Child Marriage and Protecting Children Already in Marriage,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vols. 2171, 2173 and 2983, No. 27531; ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378; and ibid., vol. 2518,
No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 521, No. 7525.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
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