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At its resumed eleventh emergency special session, the world body adopted a new resolution calling for an end to the war, only hours before the conflict enters its second year on Friday, 24 February 2023.
The results were 141 Member States in favour and seven against - Belarus, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Russia and Syria. Among the 32 abstentions were China, India and Pakistan.
By the terms of the 11-paragraph …
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 72/182 and Human Rights Council resolution 41/15.
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur seeks to highlight the situation of internally displaced children who are suffering and dying because of the lack of rapid and appropriate responses to their specific needs and protection concerns and the lack of capacity and resources to fill protection…
In advance of the 21st Pan American Child and Adolescent Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Government of Brazil, together with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Global Movement for Children, and the NGO Group on Children without Parental Care based in New York, convened an international consultation on the elimination of violence against children in alternative care. Experts in government and civil society gathered together to…
The present volume contains the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly from 15 September to 24 December 2009, as well as the information requested by the Assembly in section C, paragraph 3, of its resolution 54/248 of 23 December 1999. Decisions adopted by the Assembly during this period appear in volume II. Resolutions and decisions adopted subsequently during the sixty-fourth session will be published in volume III.
Resolutions related to children’s care include the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, 2001–2010, Assistance to…
Las directrices sobre las modalidades alternativas de cuidado de los niños fueron endosados por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas el 20 de noviembre de 2009, en conexión con el 20a aniversario de la Convención de los Derechos del Niño de la ONU. Este día marcó una culminación de los años de discusiones y negociaciones dirigidas por el gobierno de Brázil en colaboración con Group of Friends y la sociedad civil. Las Directrices fueron diseñadas para proveer orientación más con respecto a la relación entre cuidado parental y el entorno familiar del niño, metas para el cuidado…
The Committee on the Rights of the Child held a day of general discussion on 16 September on “Children without parental care”. The participants were divided in two working groups to discuss the following: (1) States’ role in preventing and regulating separation and (2) Meeting the challenges of out-of-home care provision.