Rights of the child A/RES/67/152 Registration, family relations and adoption or other forms of alternative care 8. Reaffirms paragraphs 12 to 16 of its resolution 63/241, and urges all States parties to intensify their efforts to comply with their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child to protect children in matters relating to registration, family relations and adoption or other forms of alternative care, and, in cases of international parental or familial child abduction, encourages States to facilitate, inter alia, the return of the child to the country in which he or she resided immediately before the removal or retention; Recalls the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, contained in 9. the annex to its resolution 64/142 of 18 December 2009, as a set of orientations to help to inform policy and practice, and encourages States to take them into account; 10. Also recalls Human Rights Council resolution 19/9 of 22 March 2012, entitled “Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law”, 29 expressing concern at the high number of persons throughout the world whose birth is not registered and reminding States of their obligation to undertake birth registration without discrimination of any kind and to ensure universal birth registration, including late birth registration, and that registration procedures are simple, expeditious and effective and provided at minimal or no cost; Economic and social well-being of children, eradication of poverty, right to education, right to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and right to food 11. Reaffirms paragraphs 17 to 26 of its resolution 63/241, as well as paragraphs 42 to 52 of its resolution 61/146 of 19 December 2006, on the theme of children and poverty, and paragraphs 37 to 42 of its resolution 60/231 of 23 December 2005, on the theme of children living with or affected by HIV and AIDS, and calls upon all States and the international community to create an environment in which the well-being of the child is ensured, including by strengthening international cooperation in this field and by implementing their previous commitments relating to poverty eradication, the right to education and measures to promote human rights education, in accordance with the evolving capacities of the child, the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including efforts to address the situation of children living with or affected by HIV and AIDS and to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and through the provision of adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking water and sanitation, the right to food for all and the right to an adequate standard of living, including housing and clothing; 12. Expresses deep concern about the rising levels of non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and their risk factors, especially tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption, as well as childhood obesity, and their impacts on the health of children and adolescents, and recognizes the need to strengthen health and social support systems, including by providing child-centred care taking into account that children are the cornerstone of a whole-of-life approach to primary prevention and risk factor management, as well as to adopt multisectoral approaches to address the issue; _______________ 29 Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A. 5/14