United Nations A/RES/45/112 General Assembly Distr. GENERAL 14 December 1990 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH A/RES/45/112 68th plenary meeting 14 December 1990 45/112. United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines) The General Assembly, Bearing in mind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as other international instruments pertaining to the rights and well-being of young persons, including relevant standards established by the International Labour Organisation, Bearing in mind also the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules), Recalling General Assembly resolution 40/33 of 29 November 1985, by which the Assembly adopted the Beijing Rules recommended by the Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Recalling that the General Assembly, in its resolution 40/35 of 29 November 1985, called for the development of standards for the prevention of juvenile delinquency which would assist Member States in formulating and