Archive of documents

A World Fit for Children: Outcome document of the Special Session, complete report

The complete report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole that transmitted this text for approval by the Plenary (General Assembly official records: 27th Special Session: Supplement 3. Document A/S-27/19/Rev.1)

Please note that corrigendum 2 is only available in English.

Special Session programme of events

The programme of events is available in HTML or as 2 PDF files.
HTML: View the complete programme of events .
PDF, 2 parts: View the programme of events [pdf] and the updates/changes of 2 May 2002 [pdf]

Organization of work [word | pdf]

Provisional agenda [pdf]

Newsletter

Information on events, activities and the participation of young people and NGOs:
Issue 4 [pdf]
Issue 3 [pdf]
Issue 2 [pdf]
Issue 1 [pdf]

Other documents for the Special Session

Outcome of the five main regional processes (A/S-27/13) [pdf]

Information note on administrative and logistical arrangements [pdf, 1MB]

Read this list of Questions and Answers [pdf | word].

Questions & Answers on the Special Session [pdf | word]

What's up with the Special Session? [pdf]

Preparatory Committee for the Special Session

• Third substantive session of the Preparatory Committee (11-15 June 2001)

Report of the Preparatory Committee on its Third Session (dated 18 June) [pdf] including Summary of the outcome [word]

• Second substantive session (25 January - 2 February 2001)

Report of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children, General Assembly, Official records, Twenty-seventh Special Session, Supplement No 2 (A/S-27/2, dated 28 February 2001) [pdf]

• First substantive session (June 2000)

Report of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for the Follow-up to the World Summit for Children on its first substantive session (June 2000). (A/55/43 (Part II*) [word | pdf]

• Organisational session (February 2000)

Report of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for the Follow-up to the World Summit for Children on its Organisational Session (February 2000) (A/55/43 (Part I), dated 25 February 2000) [word | pdf]

Secretary-General's update reports

We the Children: Meeting the promises of the World Summit for Children [click here to download a copy]

We the Children: End-decade review of follow-up to the World Summit for Children (A/S-27/3) [word 2.6 MB | pdf 973 KB]

State of the Preparations for the Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for the Follow-up to the World Summit for Children, Report of the Secretary-general (A/55/429, 26 Septembre 2000) [word | pdf]

Update on the Preparatory Process of the Special Session of the General Assembly for Follow-up to the World Summit for Children in 2001. Report of the Secretary General. (3 May 2000) (A/AC/256/5)
[word | pdf]

Emerging Issues for Children in the twenty-first Century
Report of the Secretary-General (A/AC.256/3 - E/ICEF/2000/13, dated 4 April 2000) [word | pdf]

Progress on implementation of the World Declaration and Plan of Action from the World Summit for Children, Report of the Secretary-General (A/53/186, dated 22 July 1998)
[word | pdf]

Operational activities for development, Progress at mid-decade on implementation of General Assembly Resolution 45/217 on the World Summit for Children, Report of the Secretary-General (A/51/25, dated 26 July 1996) [word | pdf]

Operational activities for development, Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 45/217 on the World Summit for Children, Report of the Secretary-General (A/48/321, dated 2 September 1993) [word | pdf]

Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly

Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for follow-up to the World Summit for Children adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/55/26, dated 9 January 2001) [pdf]

Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for follow-up to the World Summit for Children adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/54/93, dated 17 December 1999) [word | pdf]

Involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGO)

Decision 2 on the participation of Non-Governmental Organizations, adopted by the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session on Children on its Organisational Session. * Excerpt from the Report of the Preparatory Committee on its Organisational Session, (A 55/43 (Part I)) [word | pdf]

Decisions on the participation of Non-Governmental Organizations, adopted by the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session on Children on its First Substantive Session. * See the Report of the Preparatory Committee on its First Substantive Session, (A 55/43 (Part II)) [word | pdf]

NGO Caucuses and other events at the First Substantive Session.[word | pdf]

Report of official NGO presentations during the First Substantive Session, prepared by the NGO Committee on UNICEF (28 June 2000).

A Child Rights Agenda for the Coming Decade for the 2001 General Assembly Special Session on Children, Child Rights Caucus (Draft, 2 June 2000). [word | pdf]

Background documentation

Convention on the Rights of the Child - Resolution 44/25 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989 (A/RES/44/25)

World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and Plan of Action: World Summit for Children, 30 September 1990

Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the General Assembly on 25 May 2000, in Resolution 54/263: Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict; Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography [word | pdf]

See also Main documents

Background information: