20 July 1992

32nd plenary meeting

Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 46/112 of 17 December 1991 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 1992/75 of 5 March 1992,

Concerned about the workload of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the risk of building up an undesirable backlog in the consideration of reports from States parties,

1. Recalls that the General Assembly, in its resolution 46/112, supported the organization of the future work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the basis of two sessions per year, each of two or three weeks' duration, and the establishment of a pre-sessional working group for a preliminary review of reports from States parties;

2. Welcomes the decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 46/112, to take appropriate action, at its forty-seventh session, on the recommendations of the Committee;

3. Requests the Secretary-General to make the necessary resources available, within the overall existing budget framework, to enable the Working Group of the Whole of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to meet in 1992 subsequent to the second session of the Committee.