Concluding its special session on children, the General...

Concluding its special session on children, the General Assembly adopted the final outcome document -- "A World Fit for Children" -- which reaffirms the commitment of governments to complete the unfinished agenda of the 1990 World Summit for Children.
The document, which was adopted without a vote, contains a Declaration and a Plan of Action, which together aim to chart a course for a global movement that would strengthen international actions for the promotion of children's rights in the twenty-first century and beyond.
This UN conference reached agreement in principle after a compromise between the US and Islamic countries on family planning and capital punishment. The US and Arab nations reached a compromise with more liberal Western nations and Latin American countries on references to "reproductive health services", which some Bush administration delegates said implied abortion. The new wording simply says "reproductive health".
On the death penalty, the document was finessed into a political statement so the US did not have to commit itself to abolishing capital punishment for juveniles.