AG/RES. 1348 (XXV-O/95)

STATUS OF CHILDREN IN THE AMERICAS

(Resolution adopted at the ninth plenary session held on June 9, 1995),

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report on the status of children in the Americas presented by the Inter-American Children's Institute (AG/doc.3217/95); and

CONSIDERING:

That attention to the problems that affect children, youths, and families is a task of priority social significance for member states;

That the activities of the Inter-American Children's Institute contribute significantly to discharging this most important task; and

That converting the precepts of the Convention on the Rights of the Child into reality is an urgent, inescapable duty of the inter-American system,

RESOLVES:

1. To take note of the report on the status of children in the Americas and to thank the Inter-American Children's Institute for having submitted it.

2. To transmit the report to the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization concerned with the subject so that they may, if they deem it appropriate, present their recommendations thereon to the General Assembly.

General Assembly 1995 Resolutions