Question of a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts.

Authorizes an open-ended inter-sessional working group of the Commission on Human Rights to meet for a period of 2 weeks prior to the 51st session of the Commission in order to elaborate a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts; requests the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the working group to Governments, the expert appointed to undertake a comprehensive study on the situation of children in armed conflicts, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned.

Adopted without vote, 42nd meeting

Adopted at the 42nd plenary meeting, 22 July 1994.
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1994, New York, 25 January and 3 and 4 February 1994; resumed organizational session for 1994, New York, 6 June 1994; substantive session of 1994, New York, 27 June-29 July 1994; second special session of 1994, New York, 16 September 1994; resumed substantive session of 1994, New York, 3 and 4 November 1994 - E/1994/94 - p. 22 - (ESCOR, 1994, Suppl. no. 1).